On Friday 22 August 2003 18:53, Trevor Page scribbled:
> Assuming it is a production thing, then surely time and effort involved
> in modifying the LED displays would make it more worthwhile just using =
a
> PIC with more IO.

Nope, it's not a production thing.  Adding more hardware means finding mo=
re=20
board space (yes, it's tight), and there's no challenge in that :-)


> How about having a single transistor or something connected between the
> common DP line, the common pin for the digit on which you want the DP
> lit, and Vcc... So that the DP line is only asserted when the common fo=
r
> that segment is driven.

Yep, see my original post -- I figured out this solution for this particu=
lar=20
app, but would like to solve this problem for possible future use.

Cheers,
-Neil.

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