Bit of a roundabout way of doing it but download Winamp, go to the www.winamp.com website and download the LCD plugin (LCDisplayer) or better still go to the authors website and download the latest version - works much better. I had mine up and running in 30 minutes start to finish - you need to connect it to the Printer Parallel port. There might be easier ways of doing it but I test loads of my LCD's via this small application (and it looks good too ;) Cheers Dominic ----- Original Message ----- From: "D fault ( VisNaicker et al)" To: Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:06 PM Subject: [EE]: LCD dead ? > ;-( > ... 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 > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.