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PLED again

2003-10-01 by colinfraser_com

Hi people,

Last night, I wrote of a new PLED display:

> It looks much cooler in the dark than the LCD display, but at the 
> moment it seems to be dumping a lot of crap onto the supply lines, 
> and screwing up the reading of the pots, so I'll need to sort out 
> a mod before these can be readily used.

Tonight I put a 10R resistor inline with the 5v supply to the PLED 
module, and a 10uF decoupling cap across 5v and gnd on the module, 
and it now seems to be much cleaner - no pot glitches so far.
It looks really, really cool. Much nicer than an LCD display, and 
certainly worth the difference in price to me anyway.
The contrast is far higher, and the viewing angle is much wider.
The makers should also be producing RED PLED displays soon, too...
I can hardly wait ;-)

The only problem now is something I noticed on Paul M's P3 at the 
synth-diy weekend, but forgot about.
LCD modules (and the PLED is the same) with a Japanese rather than 
Western font will show some odd characters instead of the double < 
and > symbols I've used for some things in the P3 display.
To be honest, I think the alternative characters look pretty cool...
I just though I'd mention it in case anyone thinks there's something 
wrong with their display.

Cheers,
Colin f

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