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  1. - 5th February 2008, 23:41 #1
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    here is a picture of the top of the board. its a little fuzzy compared to my other pics, but i was too lazy to go downstairs to get more batteries for my flash.



    i should mention that the solder joints are better than they look, and the flux has been cleaned of a little better since that pic was taken.

    the power input is on the bottom of this board, then it goes through the switch and to the buck regulator underneath the LCD, and then the inductor is the black thing on the right. i ordered the wrong ones, when i built this, so i do have smaller, lighter ones now, i jsut havent put them on.

    the segments on the lcd that im having problems with, will work sometimes but not others, so i am going to stick the meter on and see what it says.
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    the segments on the lcd that im having problems with, will work sometimes but not others, so i am going to stick the meter on and see what it says.
    You said you were aiming to build something for an R/C plane?
    I'm wondering how good (bad?) those LCD segments will look at certain angles with direct sunlight behind/beside/in-front-of them...
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    it seems to appear like a digital watch when "lit" up.. im assuming it should look about the same in light... i don't really know though... if it doesn't work, i will try something else... thats whats good about doing it as a hobby!!! no deadlines and as long as its cheap, i can try different things until i find something i like.. i cant remember now, but i think i got these displays for around $1 each, and then i got a couple that are 2.5 digits ( 1.8.8) and some LED backlights for them for a couple bucks a set too.

    i will try to post a video of what the display is doing.. then maybe someone will have an idea of what is actually happening....
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    forget the video, i got it working... i had a couple of the ports backwards.. it works good and heres a pic of the lcd with direct camera flash.. it should show up ok in hte sun

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