Jim,

I suspect you have a 16x1 that is electrically set up as an 8x2.

Keep writing to the LCD, More character should start showing up after you've
sent 0x040 (64d) characters.

myke
>I'm trying to interface a 16C74 to one of these modules (using 8 bit
>wide data).
>
>The problem is that only the first 8 characters are displayed (it's a
>16X1 display) and I don't understand why..
>
>I thought it was a fault at first, but another module does exactly the
>same - any thoughts??
>
>Jim
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