Jeff,

Thanks for the reply...

On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:42:13 -0400, Jeff Galinat wrote:

>...<
> Howard,
>   The way I connected the boards was to use a single inline socket (AKA 
> female header) on the LCD facing the daughter board and a pin strip header 
> on the daugheter board.

Ah!  That's where I was confused - I usually fit the pins to the LCD (in fact some of them come ready-fitted) 
so fitting a socket on the copper side of the board is pretty-much impossible.  I'll have to start thinking 
upside-down :-)

>  What I did was push the pins in flush with the 
> plastic body of the header using pliers and inserted them from the component 
> side of the daughter board. This is the strip that you see at the bottom of 
> the board.The plastic body acts as a stop & a small amount of solder on the 
> solder side holds it in place without interfering with the mating to the 
> female header.

I'm not sure my soldering is neat enough to not interfere  :-)  but I suppose the sockets don't have to bottom 
against the board anyway - perhaps having the pins as long as possible will cause them to end-stop inside the 
sockets.

> I break the headers into six & four pins as I use the 
> displays in 4 bit mode so 4 data lines are not used so I can't see wasting 
> the pin strip.

I have supplies of 4 and 6 pin SIP sockets (which are hard enough to come by as it is, without trying to find 
14 and 16-pin ones), so I do this naturally, but thanks for the tip.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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