My friend’s LCD monitor stopped working a few weeks ago. It would come on for a few seconds and then just go blank. I decided to shine my flashlight at it at a sharp angle to see if it was completely broken or if the back light wasn’t working. As I suspected the back light was burned out, but other wise it was fine. Then we got creative. Why throw out a monitor simply because a light stopped working? Soon, we created the contraption that you see above. We took out all of the internal parts and put them into a milk crate. We found a desk lamp to use as a back light. Although this won’t really work as a desktop monitor it might very well find a home in my currently monitor-less sever closet. Without the back lights the monitor only draws 7 watts per hour.