Sadly, I don't have a datasheet for these units - they were surplus from BG=
 Micro. The command you speak of to turn it on through the driver chip soun=
ds interesting...I'll start reading up on that. As for the type of backligh=
t, this is the unit I bought:

http://www.bgmicro.com/prodinfo.asp?sid=3D06348263888888896880620&prodid=3D=
LCD1022&page=3D1&cri=3Dbacklight&stype=3D3

It's an EL backlight. 100VAC you say? What is an EL inverter? Thanks everyo=
ne



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Hi,

I was once viewing several datasheets whilst selecting LCDs for
a new project. I cant remember where I saw it, but I did come
accross an LCD which you could turn the backlight on or off with
a command similar to those used to initialise the lcd, clear the
screen etc etc... perhaps have a peek in the datasheet - it may
be that the lcd backlight is disabled by default and that you
need to send an init command to make it come on, after you have
applied power to the lcd. It is unlikely that the backlight would
use more than 5 volt assuming the size of the lcd and that it is
a character lcd.

Regards,
Andre Thomas

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