On Thursday 10 April 2003 09:41 am, John Nall wrote:
> A friend (?) has given me a bag of about a 100 seven-segment LED's
> which he said he found while cleaning out his workshop.  He doesn't
> know what they are and says that they probably date back to the mid
> 1980's sometime. :-(
>
> I'd like to be able to use them in miscellaneous projects if I can
> identify which pins are which.  I can try trial and error, since
> there are a lot of them, but thought I would take a chance and see
> if someone on this list might be able to point me to a datasheet,
> or something like that.
>
> They are 3/4" high by 3/8" wide, red in color.  They are in the
> shape of a 14-pin IC.  Looking into the face, there are two
> indentations at the bottom and a single indentation at the top,
> with a dimple at the top left (probably to identify pin 1).
> Assuming this is pin 1, then there is a pin 1, 2, 3 and 4.  No pin
> 5.  Pin 6 and 7.  Continuing to the othe side, there is pin 8, 9,
> 10.  No pin 11, no pin 12. Pins 13 and 14.

Does this help? Remember that it could be either common anode or
common cathode...

http://www.iguanalabs.com/7segment.htm

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