1. Joe S. I have not been able to get my 4X40 LCD to work - so I'm hardly the fellow to give you advice. However, I think you are right and the 4X40 is built like two 2X40 displays that have separate ENABLE pins and the rest are common. I presume one simply swaps from ENABLE1 to ENABLE2 according to what needs to be displayed.

2. The new pin-out from Futurlec is NOT the correct one (Futurlec sheet is for a device 4004 and mine is a JHD404A1 with a different number of pins.) Adjusting/guessing the connections has yielded only fleeting black blobs - and yes, I do know that black boxes may be caused by too high contrast setting.

3. I'm a bit irritated that Futurlec is selling a $40 odd LCD device and can't publish the correct spec sheet - and it's not to be found on the internet. There are quite a few different pin-outs for other 4X40 LCDs but none seem to work on the JHD404A1.

4. Anyone go it to work? Futurlec must have sold a fair number of thes LCDs

Regards Bill Legge