Anyone have a good source for cheap serial LCDs?

pacman

I've ha d a bit of sniff about on ebay, but most serial (SPI/I2C would do as well) are ether high $ or the 'seller' doesn't give me a high confidence factor. Probably because my 'chinglish' isn't great.

I know someone had a thread on serial LCDs once before {but the new search engine tells me that LCD is too short a word and keeps not searching on it}.

Doesn't have to be graphic capable. A simple 2 x 16 or 4 x 20 would be fine .Colour is not particularly important.

So do you have a good supplier? Care to share?

Thanks in advance...

max72

I was happy with this one:

http://www.robot-electronics.co.uk/acatalog/LCD_Displays.html

Being in Europe a US seller is usually too expensive on the shipping side, while UK small packets are rather cheap..

There also is Brilldea serial graphics LCD
http://www.brilldea.com/product_LM9033A.html

Maybe overkill..

If you wan to try to go for parallel there are cheaper options...
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?t=124913

or Ray's colour graphics...

william chan

Are you planning to use the serial lcd with the Propeller?
How many units you need?
I have a propeller spin object that works well with a very low cost i2c
2x16 serial lcd with backlight, USD 15 each.

Invent-O-Doc

www.sparkfun.com has a wide selection of 16x2 and other sizes with serial. The serial converted units are about 25 bucks, and about $13 for parallel displays. They have a serial backpack adapter for $15.

www.basicx.com has a wide selection, but they are expensive.

Granted, there are objects to do parallel really easily on the propeller but I find it simpler to use a serial LCD in most situations.

Ravenkallen

If you want serial( R2-232), i2c and SPI you should check out the whole line of serial lcds from Newhaven...

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Newhaven-Display/NHD-0216K3Z-FL-GBW/?qs=3vk7fz9CmNwJDkP25WXcsw%3d%3d

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Newhaven-Display/NHD-0420D3Z-FL-GBW/?qs=3vk7fz9CmNx%252bkVDpbOB1NQ%3d%3d