man this is getting really frustrating.... what about this? code: OPT17a it looks easy to soldier.... i have the tutorial, for price..... i would like to do this on the cheap -- MO seems a little much, and i like a challenge. so do you think this will be ok???? LINK: farnell.com
Looks ok to me, but hey, I bought a milford LCD! CheeseMan seems to be the LCD Guru around here. Ask him.
lol. Well I'm not quite sure what you're asking... if you take that display and wire it up as a normal 16 pin parallel will it work? Let me check... Err the code you gave isn't a valid farnell code, I know which group of lcd's you're looking at in the farnell catalogue but there's three diff. manufacturers and and 8 displays to choose from - if you give me a proper code I'll check for you. Undoubtedly it will though. Would I buy it? Can't say I would... I bought my 6th (? lost count!) LCD for my new case just a couple of days back, you'll see it around soon but for the record I went back to MO. I've have 3 parallel displays now (maplin and 2 farnell vfd's), and have wired a CF one and they're all the same in that they're lacking in the extra features to keep you interested in them (though the vfd's are damn pretty!) - sure MO's 4x20 display costs £60 if you want it in the UK but gpo's and keypads are soo nice Anyway if you're very confident you can do the soldering fine and you know what you're doing and you don't mind having a featureless display then the display you showed a pic of should be ok. Wiring isn't too hard but go slow and use your noggin' (don;t do anything stupid, the number of people I've seen trying to wire them by chopping the end off a parallel cable and connecting up the same coloured wires to the same lcd pins as overclockers.au did is unbelieveable). I've seen three people destroy their parallel displays just by doing stupid things now so be careful - parallel displays aren't any cheaper if you break em. Cheers, r.
soz about order number.... i had too do a quick post @ skewl... it is 3013194, and this is the tutorial i have: icehardware.net lcd. it'll be great if you guys say it will work -- also im not sure of the difference between VFD's and LCD displays (or modules, i dunno), plz explain. as you can see by the tutorial the unit looks like the same kinda layout (pins, etc..) thanks
LCD's - Liquid crystal display VFD - Vacuum Flourescent Display I'm a semi n00b (wow - I'm using modbabble! ) on this, but as long as you have a LCD compatible VFD, the two are interchangeable. unless the LCD messiah (He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy... And I haven't had two bottles of red wine, honest!) Cheese says differently...
lol you guys crack me up you really do ok ok down to business... now that article you quote is absolutely fantastic, amazing and brilliant... better than my poor words can describe even, though lcd's do work slightly differently to vfd's so here's the changes you'll need to make... pin 3 on the lcd needs to be earthed (full contrast), pin 15 or 'A' on the lcd needs to be +5V I think (the led backlight voltage, pretty sure it's 5v for this display - though you might get a better datasheet when you buy it). pin 16 or 'K' needs to be earthed. Everything else is the same And yes it will work... Cheers, r.
wow, you guys make me happy, il get on it when i have some time, and money... (soon) "Are they any women here"??? "No" "no" "no" "ahum..."
wow, i didn't know you wrote the LCD tutorial i was going to use... i feel like i'll have a part of you inside my computer.... know to think of a name i might illuminate -- i would you, LCD messiah, to dub my case; Sir..... you really are a clever man, lol ass kissing?
lol Well Super should be writing a nice LCD wiring guide for the site soon too... but as I say pin 3 and the backlight is the only realy diff Cheers, r.
