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- From: plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: How to drive 1 or 2 segments (ONLY) of a Liquid Crystal Display ?
- Message-ID: <24847@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 15:42:07 GMT
- References: <10SEP199210345305@mars.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Reply-To: plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe)
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- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In sci.electronics, tidedu@mars.lerc.nasa.gov (William T. Dedula) writes:
- >Hello All;
- >I am building a project which requires a LCD counter. I am using
- >MM74HC4543's to drive each of the 4 digit's BUT I need to drive
- >a few special indicators on the LCD panel such as a LOW BATT
- >indicator. I'd like to know how I can do this ? Would the normal
- >proceedure be to use another MM74HC4543 or is there a simpler way ?
- >
- Use an XOR gate (74HC86, etc.). Connect one XOR input to the signal
- you want to indicate ("Low Batt" comparator output); drive the other
- input with the LCD backplane clock signal; connect the XOR output to
- the LCD segment ("LOW BATT"). When the first XOR input is low, the
- output is in phase with the backplane clock and the segment is blank;
- when high, the XOR inverts, the output is out of phase and the segment
- is visible.
-
- -DaveP
-