Four Line LCD - LCD_EBIT

[cc1984]

Great Ideas. Thanks!

[mister_e]

It's really up to you to decide which one to use, 7408 or not. Cost effective wise, I think Dave's approach is the one. Back in time
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=626&

[cc1984]

So far what I have ended up with was 2 transistors, NPN and PNP (3904 & 3906). I tied one line from the pic to control the transistors, two 2.2K resistor going from the control line to the base of each transistor. I connected the LCDOUT control line to the collector of the NPN and the emitter of the PNP. I use the control line to turn on or off the control line to pass the enable signal to either the enable1 or enable2 on the lcd. I only had to add one IO line from the PIC and 2 transistors. I have 4 of these displays on the panel so I was not excited about adding more chips to the design. Not sure how to upload a schematic, but would like everyone/anyone to see if they see a problem with the design. However, it works great!
Thanks.