LCD in Australia

[JoshL]

I bought an LCD from ebay (from china) and it arrived today but the controller board is too wide to fit in the gameboy case.

I looked at the wiki and all of the screens on there don't ship to Australia.

Any other Aussies had this problem?

[JoshL]

The one I originally bought looked like the left on in this photo:


Have since ordered another off eBay that looks slightly different, so hopefully it will work.

If not, I will have to buy something like this I guess: http://core-electronics.com.au/raspberr ... gonal.html

[Rewired44]

Ebay sellers are notorious for using incorrect images or images of not the exact product. I guess you can contact them and ask them to confirm if it was exactly the same as the pictures. I orderd one that had the back buttons on the opposite side to the photos in the add. Heres the link http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191742290250

I have since orderd this one, postage time is slow like all chinese stuff but it looks to be the same as the gearbest screen i believe. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/191937376024

[Sundays]

I resorted to the adafruit screen from core electronics, at least then you know what your getting.

[JoshL]

The second one I ordered had no buttons on the back, so hopefully it has a small board.

The second one you posted looks perfect Rewired44. Didn't find that in my searching. Ill grab one of them if my second one doesn't work either.

[jb32647]

There are loads of Generic chinese LCDs on ebay, (fellow Australian here) but the ones that look like this: http://www.sainsmart.com/sainsmart-3-5- ... l-b-b.html are pretty competent clones of the WaveShare screens.

[dredz]

I just got one of these delivered
http://aud.dx.com/product/et-350-3-5-tf ... -961039044

Ordered on the 28th, arrived on the 7th.

Pretty sure it has the same board as Variant 7 on the wiki, but I didnt have a chance to go over it properly yet. Probably over the weekend.

dred

[Rewired44]

I just got one of these delivered
http://aud.dx.com/product/et-350-3-5-tf ... -961039044

Ordered on the 28th, arrived on the 7th.

Pretty sure it has the same board as Variant 7 on the wiki, but I didnt have a chance to go over it properly yet. Probably over the weekend.

dred

This seems like a pretty good option if it is indeed a v7 with seperate board for buttons, decent price aswell. Keep us posted!

[JujuPi]

Hey mate I'm from Straya as well. Welcome. Yes my first LCD was also the backup monitor. I got mine from Aliexpress.

I opened it and was so annoyed to receive basically what you had but even worse. Mine had extra components so I could not cut mine off. In other words don't waste your time and buy 2 from Gear best. Apparently the most success so far is with that one. I am buying 2 but be aware it takes about 3-4 weeks...

Good luck!

[dredz]

Minor correction, the screen i got from DX above is a V8 and is working fine

Helped me discover my 5v powerpack is only spitting out 4.8v which isn't enough for the screen to function.
I'll post a pic tomorrow.