LCD display

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powzoom

Joined Jan 18, 2009
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What is the best way to hook up a 2x16 character LCD display without having a huge mess of wires? It's just 16 holes side by side with little space in between. Is there a cable or something that makes it less of a mess?
 

hgmjr

Joined Jan 28, 2005
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If you buy one with an RS232 interface built in, you can save a bunch of wires. If on the other hand you have a parallel input LCD display based on the HD44780 LCD driver then you can use the 4-bit interface rather than the 8-bit interface. That eliminates 4 wires out of the mess.

hgmjr
 

John Luciani

Joined Apr 3, 2007
475
The hole pattern is most likely for a header connector. If your pattern is
two rows of eight holes per row with a hole and row spacing of 0.1" then
a connector like the FCI 68602-116HLF can be used. This type of
connector is typical on LCD character displays.

The header mates with a rectangular receptacle. You can solder wires
onto the receptacle or get a receptacle with removable contacts. You
can solder or crimp wires to the removable contacts.

(* jcl *)
 
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