henrik, I was reading an article about someone that uses about 20 characters, he loads the character to lcd memory then send the display command, Im not looking to load more than 8 at a time or display more than that, just to have the choice of what to load. So if I want to load images for batteries with levels 1-8, reload new image batch, and then refresh screen with images for 8 temprature pics, etc... I figured I could do a 8 Character groups, Batteries, Temp Guages, Smileys, Misc symbols, Etc... if I did them 8 char x 4 groups that gives me 32 characters to call from. and it should be easier to handle memory addresses.