ELO TOUCHSCREEN ET1545L-8SWC-1-IBM2 15" LCD

I actually work at a place that uses lots of double sided foam and tapes, and the stuff they use on the Elo is pretty specialty. It's narrow and extremely thin foam. I haven't been able to find something like it at HD or Lowes. Beelzerob, how did you end up keeping your glass on?

--Jamie
 
Well, it wasn't an issue for me, as the one where the glass came off had a broken USB port anyway. So I just undid the connector and completely removed the glass so I could use the LCD screen by itself.

That is a good question, though....I'm sure the tape you have on there is causing errant signals (looks like it's wrapped around the front?). I guess one good question is...how does the bezel keep the glass attached? Is it also touching the glass somewhere, and if so, then I'd guess that's a safe place to attach to the glass. If not, then maybe all ones with bezels are also relying on the sticky tape to hold the glass in place and aren't actually holding the glass on??
 
Got my tracking number. Will be here Saturday or Monday. I assume you get the software/drivers from ELO's site? Anybody running one of these on Linux?
 
I received my two serial touchscreens today from HA. Being in Oklahoma, I received them next day :) I bought two no bezel touchscreens, but they both came with bezels. One was cracked but I am not worried about it since it wasn't suppose to come with it anyway.

Both touchscreens worked. Just a forewarning, if you get two and test them one after the other you might need to restart the computer for the display to appear on the second one. I tested one and plugged the next one in. Pressed the power button and nothing -- no self test, no welcome screen, nothing. Pressed it again -- nothing. Crap, bad TS. :nutz: Restarted the computer and it came up with the welcome screen. :D

That makes 3 out of 3 -- all good. Now I need to build a hanging picture frame style enclosure for these.
 
Well drat, I wish I got a bezel :)

Was the glass attached to the enclosure? How are you going to hang them if it wasn't?

--Jaime

Edit: Durr, I'm sure you are hanging them with the bezel, duh. I guess I should have waited for the bezel sale. I just don't see how I can do this except with some tape and the touch properties go down the drain when I do. I'm sure it registering some type of touch with the tape.
 
Got my screen on Saturday. Tested and working and the sticky foam is holding very firmly. I now have to devise mounting and make a bezel. I did the Enhanced Align and got the screen very accurate when tapping. The only thing that I had issues with was tap and drag. Is that an issue with my screen or those screens in general? I did not see a setting for in in the driver.

Thanks,
 
royalj7 said:
I guess I should have waited for the bezel sale.
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Well, the bad thing about the bezels is that you'll have that for your "frame" around it in the wall...and they're far from stylish or even good looking. Standard gray monitor plastic.

What I'm wondering is if the bezel really does hold the touch glass in at all, or if it doesn't and it's all about the sticky stuff. Someone with a bezel mount out there could probably answer that...just take a look and see if the bezel does appear to be contacting the touch glass or not.
 
My guess (and it is a guess)is that the bezel holds the frame on the sides but not the front. You probably want the glass resting on the frame to support it's weight, but any contact with the front glass would probably register as a touch.
 
The problem you guys are having is because you are buying the wrong type of panel imho. Granted, these may be a little less expensive but these are the issues you are going to run into and will have to invest more time and effort to install them right. The terminology can get confusing. I believe these units com from a regular standalone monitor where bezel = case/cover. The case/cover/bezel is what hold it all together properly. When you take it out of this case/bezel is when you have these issues with the glass potentially being loose. The 'proper' type of screen to get which makes life much easier is call 'open frame'. These are designed to go into kiosks or wall mounts. They either have a very small 'bezel' or some sort of 'edging' that holds the whole thing together. They come like the ones I got which has a roughly 1" black plastic 'frame/bezel' around it like this (installed) or like these. Here they are on the ELO site.

So its really the open frame type of panels that lend themselves best to the flush wall mounting. The ones with real 'bezels' are typically standalone and dont work well flush mounted and if you take the screen only out of the standalone panel like these, sure they will work and may be easier to find and less expensive, but you will likely have issues and challenges like described.
 
I can't say with certainty what the bezel does, but my hunch is it has to hold the glass in some way, as I've tried all combination of tape around the very edges of the screen, and they all affect touch response to one degree or another. If the double sided tape looses its adhesion, the bezel has to provide some support or it glass would shift. I have just laid the touchscreen on the counter and tested it, and my second unit responses very well to single touches, but like ASIHome I have difficulty doing a tap and drag.

Because the touchscreen gods did not smile on me with either a unit with a bezel or one who's foam is still tacky, I'm going to try to incorporate glass supports in my custom frame. I am thinking of routing a "ledge" into the bottom of the frame that the glass can set on.

--Jamie
 
ouch just ordered three, that will bring me up to five. Three or Four for the house and that will leave at least one for another project.
 
Are using the serial versions and some kind of touchscreen server or is each one connected to its own PC?
 
royalj7 said:
Because the touchscreen gods did not smile on me with either a unit with a bezel or one who's foam is still tacky, I'm going to try to incorporate glass supports in my custom frame. I am thinking of routing a "ledge" into the bottom of the frame that the glass can set on.

--Jamie
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I haven't had a problem with tap and drag with any of ours.

Jamie, so you've confirmed that you can have contact with the edge of the glass panel and it won't affect touch? It's just anything wrapped over and touching the front of the panel that causes problems?
 
royalj7 said:
Was the glass attached to the enclosure? How are you going to hang them if it wasn't?
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Well, I was looking into using a matte with a picture frame setup like this. My setup will probably follow pretty close to his. I don't want to cut holes in the wall since I won't be living in the house for maybe 4-5 more years. My home is just a starter home and can't warrant the added value of the touchscreens at sale. With the frame as the mount instead of inside of the wall, I will run two RJ45 jacks keystones and use serial over ethernet and VGA over ethernet. The power cord will go either through the wall or use a recessed solution like this, but just power without the low voltage side. This will allow me to take the touchscreens with me when I move. I guess I will look at what purpose the bezel has over the touch function and try to duplicate it in the picture frame. I plan on routing an ledge to hold the glass in behind the matte like what you said. I will take pictures as I do it and do a write up if it works. If worst comes to worst, I will use the bezels.

I will either build low powered mini ITX computers or use HP TCs via XPe or RDP to connect them up to CQC.
 
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