prop usb LCD hook this time with picutres

mikediv

Hey guys I hate to beat a dead horse I figured out how to add the picutres this time so I thought I would try again , last time I swear.
The bigger LCD is a PVC160203P it has a 16 pin connector at the bottom left facing the display and a V+ and V- pad to the left of it
I want to hook it to a propstick usb so if anyone can tell me the pin out and even a way to test it with the prop I would be in your debt, I tried google it comes up in alldata but when you tried to get the data sheet its not there,, I know there was a post a while back ·and someone lese had the same display but the link in the post is bad .. the littler one is a samsung it has a double row of 7 pins to the left of it so there are 14 pins total and it to has a volt pad V+ V- to the right of it they both light up when I add 5 volts power to them but I have no clue as to the pinouts the only thing on the samsung it has the black face plate is
0198L then under samsung looks like a bcakward RS DP CVO it only has one black IC chip on it the other one with the chrome face plate has 2 as seen in pictures ,, if no one can help could you please recommend a display LCD from parallax or anywhere that will work with the prop I also have the board of education BS2 if you thats easier to test LCD with.
Thanks
And EVERYONE HAVE A MERRY XMAS

soshimo

That looks like a HD44780 based LCD. If that's the case, check out this link. It's written for the pic but you might be able to find something useful. I have a datasheet lying around somewhere. I'll have to go through my cd archive to find it but I'll post it after I dig it up.

** Update **
Found it quick. I hope I'm not violating any copyright laws, but I'll go ahead and upload the datasheet.

mikediv

soshimo thank you I have been trying for weeks to some info on these things
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soshimo

np Mike - glad that I could help! I bought a bunch of those a few years ago from a local electronics surplus house - I think I got them for $5 each. I only tried 4 of them and they all worked. The biggest pain is soldering all those wires or a header [noparse]:)[/noparse].

StefanL38

hello,

by googling with keywords

PVC160203P lcd download

i found this

PVC160203P

it's east-european I guess but there's a schematic and PIN-numbers
maybe it helps

best regards

Stefan

mikediv

StefanL38·how the heck did you find that I checked every link that came up in google,dogpile,yahoo I even checked the chinese and german ones none of them had any data ,, thank you so much, if I could get this english I would be very happy
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StefanL38

Hello Mike,

as mentioned above I googled with the keywords


"PVC160203P"

and

"lcd"

and

"download"

this gave only three hits but the one with the schematic

first I googled with the keyword "datasheet"
got a lot of hits but not really a datasheet like you

if the first keywords don't hit I change a PART of the keywords

I did some more searching and found two hints about the manufacturer
one named id "picVIEW" which is wrong

then I found an URL http://www.picvue.com.tw/product_sn/index2_1602.htm

page-load error :-(
the website www.picvue.com.tw seems no longer to exist

then searching for infos about picvue electronics i found this url

http://www.twse.com.tw/ch/about/company/download/factbook/2008/1.07.htm

it says someting about
2333 PICVUE ELECTRONICS, LTD. 06/20 beeing DELISTED

to me that sound like the whole company might NOT exists anymore
orhas been bought by another company

so I googled some more.
One variant was to google for

"PVC" "160203P" as TWO separated searchstrings

instead of

"PVC160203P"

I did 8-10 more reasearches and I can't remember which one lead me to this

www.w-r-e.de/robotik/data/downl.htm

there is a datasheet

PVC160203PYL
the typenumber ends "PYL" intead of "P"

which seems to be more useable but adobe-reader 9.0 had to install traditional chinese letters before displaying it
inside the PDF most is english

I want to write a little bit about my searchstrategy

One difference between my searchstrategy and yours is

you did a search for the exact typenumber and looked through ALL the hits

My strategy is I look crossread the first 50 hits and take a look into that ones that I guess they're interesting
if I find nothing on this way I start change the keywords and crossread again

I considered who could provide the datasheet ?
electronic-distributors like rs-components - no luck in this case

I also take a look into urls from languages I do NOT understand
maybe by crossreading I can find some interesting info anyway
( so it was with the url http://www.picvue.com.tw/product_sn/index2_1602.htm)
no luck in this case

OK go on searching...
I came across a forum-posting naming the manufacturer picvue
and then I searched for picvue lcd
crossreading etc. etc-

best regards

Stefan

Post Edited (StefanL38) : 12/23/2008 9:01:56 PM GMT

Oldbitcollector (Jeff)

@Stefan: your Googlefu is strong.. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

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mikediv

Oldbit no kidding huh, well I want to say thank you even more so now that I see what you had to go through to get it.
Hey just for kicks I just got a huge 6 in LCD optrex DMF608 if anyone has a pinout for this as well it has 15 pins a bunch of OKI M5839B driver chips all over it
picture included

StefanL38

Hello Mike,

this challenged me to find it out too.

first google

OK as we know the manufacturer

take a look onto the manufacturers site using google advanced search

searchstring "DMF site[noparse]:http:[/noparse]//www.optrex.co.jp"

http://www.google.de/search?num=100&hl=de&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=DMF+site:http://www.optrex.co.jp&btnG=Suche&meta=


no hits for "DMF608" nothing found for "608"
a lot of hits with "DMF"

google shows only EXACT hits
no wildcards etc. so with many hits I use the searchfunction of firefox to jump through the hits

search for "608" no hits

search for "08" some hits with numbers "5008" and "508"

aha

some manuals for DMF-Displays

http://www.optrex.co.jp/us/product/newpro/RoHS/pdf/50840bie.pdf

http://www.optrex.co.jp/us/product/catalog/pdf_dmf/51026abe.pdf

http://www.optrex.co.jp/us/product/catalog/pdf_dmf/5001awe.pdf

http://www.optrex.co.jp/us/product/catalog/pdf_dmf/5001axe.pdf

http://www.optrex.co.jp/us/product/catalog/pdf_dmf/5001ave.pdf

http://www.optrex.co.jp/us/product/catalog/pdf_dmf/682ace.pdf

http://www.optrex.co.jp/us/product/catalog/pdf_dmf/50840ase.pdf

One thought. do you know the pixel-resolution ?
maybe it's possible to conclude from another display with the same resolution and same
number of contacts on the connector

Question: are you sure the type is DMF608?
what other numbers are on the display?

best regards

Stefan

mikediv

Stefan, yes its a DMF608 it came out of a star t1 analyzer I actually took the time and wrote to Optrex nice people the tech Ralph is going to send me whatever data he left on it , It got me to thinking it would be a nice idea for everyone to post all the info they have on any LCD that they use maybe we could get Mike from parallax to make it a sticky topic ,, anyway I got off track when I get the data I will be happy to share it with you, have a safe and happy holiday buddy.
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