Originally posted by Dave
Rob, Just tie the one side of a 10k pot to a spare micro pin of choice and the center of the pot to the VO line and the bottom of the pot to ground. Now with the pin outputing a high state adjust the pot for the correct contrast. Now during startup your code will output a low on the pin untill you want the display to be enabled and then just set it to a high state for display.

HTH,
Dave Purola,N8NTA

Thanks for that - it works perfectly!

Rob