Finding A LCD Display That Works For Me
Custom LCD displays are a very different matter. They need more effort and time to develop, though not so long as most people may think.
In the not so distant past it was odd for an OEM, or manufacture to design and purchase a customised LCD display. The main reason was that the MOQ (Minimum Order Quantities) were particularly high, the tooling (NRE or Non-Recurring Engineering) was prohibitive and the lead times would stretch out for a few weeks. This has changed radically in the last 4 to five years. Many of these barriers and restrictions have been decreased. Up to date changes in custom LCD displays:
In the previous couple of years there have been many alterations in custom LCD display technology. Many of these changes include new sorts of display technologies, new manufacturing process and increased potency in the display industry.
These changes include: Faster proto-typing of samples
Lower MOQ
Lower tooling cost for custom color displays
Character LCD Displays
Character LCD Displays, also called alphanumeric modules, have been in the key stream for one or two years. Common applications of characters include credit card readers, test and measurement hardware, pool filters, and scales. This display does not offer a variety of colours or the power to display graphics. They can display all the numbers, letters and punctuation marks in English. With a change in the controller driver chip other languages can be shown.
These displays are available in standarized configurations like 162. The 1st number, 16, is the quantity of characters, letter/numbers/punctuation marks. The second number, 2, is the number of rows. In short a 162 is two rows with each row holding 16 characters, for has a grand total of 32 characters. The most typical configurations are 81, 82, 161, 162, 201, 202, (204, 401, 402, 404 and 164 decreasing in popularity)
One top merit of the standardized configurations is that the display you purchase from LCD provider “A” will be available from LCD provider “B”. This decreases the probability of a single source LCD module.
Jeffery Fredricks is has worked with LCD displays for ten years and his company offers LCD display products like Character LCD Displays, Static LCD, and custom LCD displays.
January 28, 2012 | Posted by Jeffery Fredricks
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