LCD Display for $12.50....

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I'm looking for an easy connecting low cost LCD Display with
backlighting. I've come across a 2x24 LCD Display from All Electronics
for $12.50. Does anyone know how difficult this unit would be to get
running with a BS2P and the BS2P Demo Board? The display comes with a
2x7 plug which may make the header on the Demo Board.

http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=search&item=L
CD-69&type=store

Does it matter that the documentation (see link) doesn't call out a
HD44780 driver, or will make it more difficult to get working?

Any thoughts on this?
Thanks,
Chris

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I have 5 of these and they work great with my BS2p40. The backlight
current is set with resistors R11-R13 and are populated with 4.7 ohm,
1206 resistors. If you remove R9(zero ohm jumper) the backlight will
be off. You can solder wires from each pad of R9 to a switch and
control the backlight on or off. The display takes about 400 mA with
the backlight on and if you switch the backlight on or off place a
220 uF cap by pins 1 and 2 of the LCD connector on your board or you
will reset your stamp with the surge. I have changed R11-R13 to 22
ohm, 1206 and the backlight is still bright enough to see in the dark
and only requires a fraction of the current.

Here is the display on one of my projects.

http://myweb.core.com/photos/jbirnsch(at)vbe(dot)com/BasicStamp/

Replace the (at) and (dot) in the link with @ and .

Jason


--- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, cdundorf@j... wrote:
> I'm looking for an easy connecting low cost LCD Display with
> backlighting. I've come across a 2x24 LCD Display from All
Electronics
> for $12.50. Does anyone know how difficult this unit would be to
get
> running with a BS2P and the BS2P Demo Board? The display comes
with a
> 2x7 plug which may make the header on the Demo Board.
>
> http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?
category=search&item=L
> CD-69&type=store
>
> Does it matter that the documentation (see link) doesn't call out a
> HD44780 driver, or will make it more difficult to get working?
>
> Any thoughts on this?
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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