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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">I got a few a while ago for prototyping, never again.. They also seem to have a lot smaller viewing angle range?</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">-----Original Message-----<br />From: "Robin Gilks" <robin@gilks.org><br />Sent: Sunday, 9 August, 2015 14:10<br />To: "Christchurch Robotics" <chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz><br />Subject: [chbot] Blue HD44780 LCDs<br /><br /></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Greetings all<br /><br />I've only ever used green and yellow HD44780 style character mode LCDs and<br />they have had a backlight (which draws a LOT of current) but been<br />perfectly readable without the backlight being on.<br /><br />I'm now playing with a blue one and the backlight has to be on to read it<br />- is this normal for blue LCDs ?<br /><br />I haven't checked the current yet (rebuilding alpha hardware into beta<br />stage prototype) but I'm guessing its quite low since modern blue LEDs<br />seem to be very efficient.<br /><br />Cheers<br /><br />-- <br />Robin Gilks<br /><br /><br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />Chchrobotics mailing list Chchrobotics@lists.linuxnut.co.nz<br />http://lists.ourshack.com/mailman/listinfo/chchrobotics<br />Mail Archives: http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/chchrobotics/<br />Meetings usually 3rd Monday each month. See http://kiwibots.org for venue, directions and dates.<br />When replying, please edit your Subject line to reflect new subjects.</p>
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