I just got it on Thursday, less than a week after purchasing it. I was one of the first bidders.
A nice surprise was the unit came with a thick black plastic bezel. The bezel has holes drilled along the edges and it was very slightly worn. This picture shows the bezel, but my unit did not come with the 19" rack mount adapter:
http://www.elotouch.com/images/products/1547l0608.jpg I ordered a VESA rack mount adapter from Provantage.com:
http://www.provantage.com/startech-rklcdbk~ASTR9167.htm For my purpose having the bezel is more important than it being worn, so I was fine with its condition. It's also a bezel apparently made to back-mount the unit to a kiosk, so it has a lot of visible "waves" in it from the injection molding process. It's not a cosmetic outside frame for the screen.
The device has a glass screen, so it was easy to clean up the screen and have it look new. There was a bunch of fingerprints all over it when I opened it, but after wiping the screen down it looked great and had no scratches. There is a few pieces of dust between the touchscreen glass and the monitor surface, though. I'm hoping they dislodge themselves when I transport the screen from gig-to-gig; but if not, it doesn't appear too difficult to disassemble the unit and use some compressed air to clean it off. For $53 I'm not going to complain! The display has moderate brightness and images appear very slightly washed out. But I'll be using it in a darkened room and my video card's gamma adjustment was able to get a look I like better; so again, I'm not worried about it at all.
The display has a set of five pushbutton switches for the Power and OSD picture adjustment controls mounted onto a circuit board just behind the bezel on the lower right side of the display. The unit automatically turns on when power is applied, so accessing the power button here isn't necessary.
There is a twisted pair of red and black colored wires coming out from the left side. You can partially see these wires in the seller's third photo. I measured an unregulated 6~7 volts coming out of it that would fluctuate when I hit the power switch. Power was available on these leads no matter if the power was on or off, but that could be because I didn't put a load on it. I'm not sure what it's for; ELO's website and user's manual make no mention of these wires, so it must have been added specifically for this lot of units.
This touchscreen did not come with a serial port. Only the USB port was available. Vista immediately recognized the touchscreen, but the OS loaded a generic mouse driver that flipped the touchscreen upside-down. When I downloaded and installed ELO's driver, it worked correctly. At first, ELO's driver tried setting up the touchscreen on my main monitor, but later it somehow figured out the touchscreen was on my display #2 and correctly continued with setup.
Finally, I want to point out that this is one of the cheapest touchscreens on eBay that comes with a built-in power supply. There are other cheap touchscreens; but after adding ~$30 + postage for an external power supply, they're no longer as much of a value as this screen.
Overall, I'm very pleased with it! I'm definitely going to continue using it. If Ralf can take care of a few feature requests and bug fixes, I eventually want to make this my sole working interface for my FreeStyler application. The screen's only limitation is that at 1024x768 native resolution, it only offers a basic amount of space for FreeStyler's interface. I'm kind of tempted now to try a rack-mounted 19" display, but the problem with those screens is that they take up 8U of rack space. This 15" display takes up only about 6U and allows me to use my rack more efficiently. I'm hoping that over time, FreeStyler's touchscreen interface can be streamlined to fit this screen size more effectively. I'm working on one design now with slimmer buttons to see if we can achieve this.
It looks like the seller has a lot of these touchscreens, and he's also selling a lot of them too! If you don't have one already, I definitely recommend you and any FreeStyler developer to pick one up before this deal is gone!
ELO's webpage for the 1547L, including link to driver:
http://www.elotouch.com/Products/Discon ... 7l0608.asp
User's manual:
http://media.elotouch.com/pdfs/manuals/008521_f.pdf
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