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Re: Beo4 with built in light

Dave — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:06:51 GMT

That is brilliant!! Well done, you are very clever!!!!

Re: Beo4 with built in light

Schmedegaard — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 06:53:01 GMT

Hi all

After disassemple, i removed the foil on the back of the display, to get a better light reflektion.

I made a pice of polycarbonate(plastic) 1mm thick. Paintet it white on the backside, and made 4 square cuts, 2 on eagh side.

Glued in the 4 LED's (0402) and connectet them in 2 parralel connections, with a 330ohm resistor on the positive side. Then soldared the tilt switch to the ground on the pcb(print circuit bord), and the positive to batteri.(4,5 volt)

And it will always turn on when liftet/tiltet up, so it would'nt shut off when mounted in the wallmount. But this could be solved with a ritz-relay (magnetic relay) so when placet in the wallmount it shuts off. Or you could built in a ic555 time relay, så it shuts off after a predefined time.

Unfortunately i did'nt take pictures under the construktion, as i was to focust on getting it done:-)

i will defenently work on it in the next couple of weeks, and then take some pictures:-)

Re: Beo4 with built in light

Nickyg63 — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:24:41 GMT

Seanie_230:

ok well lets bash them into making it again but the same price as the current beo4 ;)

I agree! I would buy one, then!

Re: Beo4 with built in light

Seanie_230 — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:43:28 GMT

ok well lets bash them into making it again but the same price as the current beo4 ;)

Re: Beo4 with built in light

Nickyg63 — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:05:20 GMT

I am sure they were about £500 each for a beo4 cinema!!

Re: Beo4 with built in light

Seanie_230 — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:37:21 GMT

Well i Vote as customers we should start a petition for B&o to bring back the Beo4 Cinema and make it a product we can buy and replace when needed.

I for one would order Two striaght away. Not all of us like the Beo5/6 but the beo4 i still love

Come on boys and girls lets tell them what we want....

Re: Beo4 with built in light

Step1 — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:23:11 GMT

Here I am wishing I had a Beo4 to modify :) BTW You video is not in the link...

Re: Beo4 with built in light

TWG — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 08:10:20 GMT

Schmedegaard:
I have had an idea for a wile, and today i tryed building it.

4 small LED's in the beo4 display, to se "LIST" in the dark.

I still have some other tests to doo... Like less bright LED's maybe only 50mcd like on the left insted of 160mcd on the right.

The On and Off is controled by a small tilt-switch.

I will follow up, as the progress goes by.

Here is a video so far: http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=kGni5NIeNt0

Very nice! Would you mind sharing the instructions how you made and installed it into the Beo 4?

Due to the tilt-switch: Does the LED stay on when you put the remote into the wall bracket?

I think want to modify my Beo 4, too :)

Re: Beo4 with built in light

Chrisreunion — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:00:35 GMT

Yuck!

Re: Beo4 with built in light

Stoobietoo — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:14:31 GMT

Or you could get this and save the effort!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/23/pop-up-microlite-turns-your-janky-remote-into-a-well-lit-even-j/

3 for under $20 - wohoo and it really will enhance the look of that boring Beo4

Stoobie

Re: Beo4 with built in light

Seanie_230 — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:08:43 GMT

Looking good so far. If I could still get a beo4 cinema I would as this would be perfect for my cinema setup

This very well may be the next best thing

Keep us posted

Re: Beo4 with built in light

burantek — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:10:53 GMT

Well done so far. Looks like it is off and running. Keep us posted as you progress!

Beo4 with built in light

Schmedegaard — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:15:23 GMT

I have had an idea for a wile, and today i tryed building it.

4 small LED's in the beo4 display, to se "LIST" in the dark.

I still have some other tests to doo... Like less bright LED's maybe only 50mcd like on the left insted of 160mcd on the right.

The On and Off is controled by a small tilt-switch.

I will follow up, as the progress goes by.

Here is a video so far: http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=kGni5NIeNt0