You mention "lighted display".  Are you wanting the big red LED's or are 
you talking an LCD with a light behind it?

Martin McCormick wrote:

>	I want to have a lighted display in a clock in which the
>digits are in the general range of 2 to 4 inches high.  If someone
>makes individual digits like that then I will need to build a
>controller for them, of course.
>
>	If there is a display module that fits this general
>description, then I need to be able to connect it using DIP headers or
>something similar that I can accommodate with wire wrap technology.
>
>	The idea is to make the clock work first and add the display
>last such that the clock treats the display like a peripheral and
>updates it but doesn't concern itself with lighting up this or that
>segment.  It would just send out BCD or ASCII digits to a second PIC
>that managed the display itself.
>
>	What I don't desire is what I have seen in some devices I have
>salvaged in which there is a ribbon of 4 score and 7 tiny stranded
>conductors wave soldered to the surface of both the display board and
>the main board.  That is not my idea of fun.  I am sure it works fine
>in a mass-production environment, but not here.:-)
>
>	Thanks for any useful ideas.  This is a one-of-a-kind project,
>but one never knows where these things can lead.
>
>Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
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