> Philip Pemberton wrote: >> That's a pretty neat way to do it. Only problem is, the display won't >> run in >> SLEEP mode so I'm not going to be able to get the power consumption down >> far If you have spare pins, you can use two pins per backplane and tristate them when you want to sleep. Spare pins, yeah right, I know how rare that is :) Cheers, Bob -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist