At 02:28 AM 8/30/97 -0400, you wrote:
>IMHO There are three 'common' methods of backlighting :-
>
>1.     LED back light using a small number of leds.
>        cheap and doesent use much power but you can see where the leds are.
>
>2.     LED back light using light bars large number of leds
>        a bit more expensive and uses loads of power 2-5W at 5v looks beter
>than 1 above
>
>3.     Electroluminessent backlight
>        very expensive and requires a small inverter to generate the voltage
>to run the lamp very pleasing to the eye.
>

SIDELIGHTING is also cheap and works very well.  Shine an LED on the Edge
of teh display rather than the back.  Not the same, but still good.

Andy


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