LCD dsiplay driving me up the wall!

[Dave]

agross, What actual display are you using? How do you have the contrast pin wired?

Dave Purola,
N8NTA

[agross]

I am using a powertip PC1602c LCD, I have the contrast set correctly because I can see the solid squares when I power the PIC and LCD panel up. The contrast pin is set by throing a pot on the bread board and then adjusting the wiper.

[Archangel]

Hello agross,
Install some code to flash an LED just so you know the PIC is working, set your contrast so the squares are barely visable, usually I simply ground that pin, and mine work. Check your breadboards connections, especially the Osc connections.
try:

FLAGS = 0              ' Forces LCD to initialize
pause 500              ' Allows the time
lcdout $FE,1           ' Clears LCD
lcdout $FE,2, "hello"  ' Returns to beginning of line 1 and writes "string"

Check this link too . . .http://www.geocities.com/dinceraydin/lcd/commands.htm notice . . link has popup ads, not my link though . . .

[Acetronics2]

Hi, Agross

Did you see this Thread ???

http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=7871

Alain

[mvs_sarma]

While experts are already on job to help you on software front, I would suggest that you may put a schematic of what actually wired., in third dimension, irrespective of what your software speaks.

this will really help the experts to confirm your wiring with ref. to software, here again, we don't expect a schematic published by some one, as it won't help checking the actual wiring done by you.