PLOG 01-05: Now Starts the Real Fun
I have just spent the day obtaining the main components:
- Osram Powerstar HQI-BT 400W/D [$40] + E40 Holder [$12] [both from Sinter Electrical Company Pte. Ltd., #03-05 Sim Lim Tower]
- Parmar HPS 400W Ballast [$28] + Capacitor (30 microF) [$10] + Ignitor [$16] [all from Sinter, same as above]
- 3 meter ‘power cable’ (I don’t know exactly what it’s called.. it’s the cable you connect to the wall) [$3 - Sinter]
- One OHP (triplet lens, fresnel doublet lens, glass) [$20 - Asia Asset Recovery , through eBay Auction]
- One second hand 15″ Fujitsu LCD Monitor (model unknown) [$150 - Weng Cheong Computers, #04-02 Sim Lim Sq.]
- 2 meters of ‘electric wire’ (heh, again I don’t really know what it’s called) [$3], One Switch [$2] and One Terminal Block [$3] [all from Space Centre,#B1-41 Sim Lim Tower]
Total Damage Done: $292.30 (After GST)
By the way, you should have noticed that I managed to get a second hand 15″ LCD. Yes, by chance I happened to find it when searching for the 7-8″ screens. Looks like the shop found it in the dumpster, though, as they knew nuts about it. However, I got them to hook it up and it looked decent, so I went for it.
The 7-8″ screens, which can be found quite commonly at Sim Lim Tower, were some “Super LCD TV/Monitor” models, and they didn’t look that great. Shopkeepers also knew nuts about it, one tried to tell me the 8″ model had 800×600 resolution, but another shop leaked that it had only 640×480 (or somewhere thereabout). Furthermore, the screen didn’t do too well on a DVD test. Looked decent for TV, but not DVD. Either that, or the shops used pirated DVDs. Well serves them right. Anyway, the cheapest I found was $165 for 8″, $155 for 7″, so the unknown second hand Fujitsu looked like a better buy.
I hope to start tearing things apart after a dinner provided by the Mom. It’s been a tiring day, but I wish to get this done by the start of next week.
