I ran across some sn102 lcd's in a local electronics junk yard today. anyway it has 2 44780's on it but is not the normal hookup from what i've been finding out. if anyone has any info on these or can help please let me know. attatched is some images of it plus a bonus item i got today. and the fun bonus item, think it has enough led's on it
I'm pretty sure 'sn102' is not a model number. Anyway, it looks to me as a 4x40 LCD (hence the two HD44780's). The 16 pin connector is pretty standard too. These LCD's have two enable lines E1 & E2 (one per HD44780) as a HD44780 can only address 80 characters. In fact the 4x40 LCD acts as two separate 2x40 LCD's. I'm not sure about the function of the 16 pin connections but it would be quite easy to trace them by means of the HD44780 datasheet. CD
The two 16pin connectors look like they are one and the same, just designed for two different socket types. I.e. if you have a 2x8 pin connection or a 1x16. Briefly looking at it, they look like they all match to each other.
well it isn't hooking up correctly like most 44780's. I've searched all over and found info on it, well i found others having issues with it as well, however most are not speaking english about it so i am having difficulties understanding what is going on. one thing people are saying is that the backlight might be a -5. that and i'm having problems getting a test pattern to even come up that is why i was curious about the pin config as well. anyway hopefully i can get one of these suckers going soon. thanks
I know i have the data sheets for this somewhere on the hard drive, so give me 5 min to find and upload them.
The data sheets are below. I hope you find them useful. They apply to most LCD's. If your planning on using them with a PIC then i have some code you can have too. Datasheet 1 Datasheet 2
sometimes the contrast pin needs negitive voltage to work. Not all the time though. Use the 2nd link monkeyville, and find the pinout listing on page 5/6 find the one that matches your chips (the first one I believe) and use a multimeter to find the GND, Vcc, DB0-DB7 pins, RS, RW, and E pins I think most likely you'll find like Turbokeu said, all the lines are shared between the 2 LCDs except E, which each LCD controller has its own. The unused pin near the power pins should be the contrast pin, put a pot on that like normal, and there should be 2 pins for the backlight too.
This 4x40 datasheet from Powertip could be useful. I think the backlight has separate feeding connections as h_2_o's LCD only has 16 pins. CD
Turbokeu is close. I just looked at all the links to pinouts here, and they are all wrong except the HD44780 chip sheet. Using that and tracing the traces in your picture, I have your pinout as follows: 1 = Ground 2 = Vdd 3 = Vcontrast 4 = RS (or C/D depending on your wiring. It means the same thing) 5 = R/W (read/write) 6 = Not Connected 7 = DB0 8 = DB1 9 = DB2 10 = DB3 11 = DB4 12 = DB5 13 = DB6 14 = DB7 15 = Enable1 16 = Enable2 I am guessing that 15 is Enable1. I cant see where that trace goes. If you have a DMM, you can check to see if the trace goes to pin38 on the HD44780 chip. I am willing to bet that the backlight is directly connected to the Vdd and GND lines of the 16 pin header. This pinout is different than any other 4x40 LCD I have seen. This is why so many people are probably having problems. I am 100% sure that the pinout I just gave you will work.
thanks again for the help guys, i can not test until mid week probably. taxes are killing me this year. anyway i'll update as soon as i can and if i get one working i'll post up fun pictures. anyway is anyone else interested in these, the place i got them at had quite a few left last time i was there, i can grab em if anyone is interested.
If they are not going to cost me an arm and a leg I might be interested in a couple of them. That is, if you are able to hook them up and get something displayed. Though Hazer's pinouts look like they should get you on the right track.
