Yamakasi Catleap Monitor Club - Page 128

I have pics out to PCB suppliers in China - not sure if they can either source them or build them - waiting to hear back.  The good news is I finally have a contact at Witech, the Catleap manufacturer!  That only took a week.  The Witech contact is what has me so excited this morning.  Info has been sent over, but the timing is always off since it's getting towards the middle of the night over there.

I understand that an eBay seller is talking about sourcing an OCN-type special monitor - that has its own thread - so there are multiple avenues out there right now.  I personally want the PCBs rather than a new monitor (since I won't be buying another) so will keep with the effort to source parts rather than an entire monitor (I posted my skepticism about the prospect of a specialty monitor in that thread already.)  As I stated in that thread I contacted the same seller concerning boards and he said he couldn't get them.  However, now he wants to spec an entire monitor for OCN and sell that.  Seems to me that the margins are much smaller in the PCBs so he wants to go with the larger sell.  That also tells me these parts are available once I find the right contact, which gives me renewed hope in finding the parts we need.

I will keep you posted of course!

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Originally Posted by votum 

I have an issue you guys need to know of!
The vesa holes in the back of the catleap are shallow. If you screw in a vesa mount all the way and then try to move the monitor it will short. Fortunately I shorted mine about 4 times trying to figure out what was going on and it survived Component quality must be good, but I recommend using washers for your vesa mounts

This is an issue for sure.  Just make sure you are not going more that a 1/2" in or so and you will be fine.  The screws for my mounts sit flush with the nut on the back of the monitor shell so I was golden.  Good tip!

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Originally Posted by Talfrey 


Thanks for the update.
Would you be able to PM me some part information? I actually know a maker of knock off HP motherboards, maybe they can fill us an order.

All the part info is in the first post - if something is missing let me know and I will get you what I have.  I have requests out now to 12 Chinese PCB manufacturers and upped my request to 100 boards since there is so much interest on the other thread about getting a 100hz monitor (to get better prices/quicker responses.)  Plus, we may be killing these PCBs running so high so having extras for self-warranty is not a bad idea!