Mach II LCD

[Nobes]

Is the MACH II LCD a common type of LCD or does it work differently to everything else.

the reason i ask as i would like to make a board to drive the LCD with maybe a PIC or something (have some experience with PICs).

Does anyone know wher i can get info on this or someone thats done it before?

My MACH II control board has started to play up and id like to get rid of it completely

there seems to be others already looking into new control boards so i thought id look into the LCD side of things using the MACH II one.

 

[maverik-sg1]

You can already purchase matrix orbital set-up with software and lcd that fits in a 51/4" drive slot. email sales@extremeprometeia.com for details if you are serious about making a purchase.

On a mach unit with LCD, you can use the mach software to customise the display.

Hope this helps.

Mav

PS: Welcome to the forums, enjoy your stay.

 

[Gray Mole]

Better late than never

The LCD on the Mach2 systems is using a KS0066 samsung LCD chip.

That's not really much of an issue generally but if the controller is programmed around a very specific code, sometimes that code will work ONLY with a specific driver method.

Enter the older 66 chip. The mach controller will ONLY work with that.

Some of the other refrigeration controllers are for HD 4478 (something something ) and they ONLY work with that too.

If a controller is coded with a great deal of variance in mind (and let's face it, the control set of a LCD isn't vastly different) then it could potentially work on any LCD with any chip.

So that's something to keep in mind. You'll need to know the driving method for a particular LCD to run it, but if you take a more general look at them you may be able to make your PIC run ANY LCD across the board, or at least anything that's reasonably close.

Hope that helps anyway

Gray