;-(
       ...  sob ....

I thinks dead .... I bought it two years ago . A LM052L.
2x16 44780 type. Never found the correct datasheet . Soldered
it with shaking hands , earthed iron , amongst anti-static
packaging , in the middle of a large , empty room at the
peak of a South African summer at high humidity.

Attempted a few different circuits to set it up . That
 LCD tut from EPE , a parallel port circuit , and another .
 None ever worked.

Upon switch on , previously , one row used to be barely -
and I mean barely - visible for a few seconds and then
thereafter nothing . "Contrast" was set by a trimmer 10 K
across 5V . Some contrast . Also pumped a -3V voltage to
it to see if it was one of _those_.

But it never worked . Ever . I paid over $12 for it .. sob...
How can I tell if it dead ? How do I move on ? Should I
get another one or do I say never again ? I had such plans
high hopes for it . Meant to make it dockable so that I
could dock it to other projects I had in mind. Like the
frequency meter / inductance/capacitance/resistance meter /
alarm / timer etc . But are they to be stillborn as well ?

Oh I feel like ending it all . I think I'll go flash a LED.

Any ideas ?

Vis Naicker

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