VDS display

Ferrari355

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That's no deal... I haven't brought the bus pirate to check out the SPI control lines yet just too many things going on right now.
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tiulian

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Hi, I know this thread is old, but maybe someone's still interested in figuring it out.. :) so, I've made measurements on the board, and by viewing the signals on the oscilloscope, I've come up with this : pins 1 and 2 are Vcc and Vss, pins 3,4,5 and 6 are the "mystery" pins and 7, 8 are + / - for the backlight. Now, for the "mystery" pins, I have 2 of them that are under continuous voltage and the other 2 that are under pulse voltage, respectively one clock and one random pulse, in synch with the clock - meaning SCL / SDA (in my opinion..). The other 2 pins could be Enable and Contrast. Now, the problem is that I don't know the steps in coding the driver for a serial display (this one in particular).. Does anyone have any idea ?.. I'm pretty enthusiastic that I'm very close in cracking it and it would make for a nice display to scrap :)
 

Ferrari355

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That's looking good! my display is still hanging in with just only one LED lighting the display.. very hard to see I need to tilt it to see it.

my finding where the same connected to the oscope.. each change on the display would cause a pulse on the pin..

I was told to use a bus pirate on it but I kinda lost track getting back to the project.
 

Ferrari355

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I took out my display and something confuses me..

a few posts up they list these pins as being needed for the display to work

1 Vss (ground)
2 Vdd (+5v)
3 RS
4 E
5 DB4
6 DB5
7 DB6
8 DB7

Now here is what confuses me.. So we found pins 7&8 are for the backlight and 1&2 are for the logic.. that leaves me with 4 wires left.. how would I be able to do pins 3-8 with only 4 wires if that's needed to power the display to show something?
 

tiulian

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Hi, I know this thread is old, but maybe someone's still interested in figuring it out.. :) so, I've made measurements on the board, and by viewing the signals on the oscilloscope, I've come up with this : pins 1 and 2 are Vcc and Vss, pins 3,4,5 and 6 are the "mystery" pins and 7, 8 are + / - for the backlight. Now, for the "mystery" pins, I have 2 of them that are under continuous voltage and the other 2 that are under pulse voltage, respectively one clock and one random pulse, in synch with the clock - meaning SCL / SDA (in my opinion..). The other 2 pins could be Enable and Contrast. Now, the problem is that I don't know the steps in coding the driver for a serial display (this one in particular).. Does anyone have any idea ?.. I'm pretty enthusiastic that I'm very close in cracking it and it would make for a nice display to scrap :)
So, a few days ago I found the display again, sitting in a drawer.. :D so, resuming what I found out last time, there was :
1 - Vcc
2 - Vss
3/4 - one of them is possibly power on reset, the other chip select (if SPI)
5 - SCL / SCK
6 - SDA / DIN
7 - Backlight
8 - Backlight
I do believe it's I2C, because it's connected to I2C bus on the MCU from the original board, but then again, pin 4 on the LCD is connected to one GPIO pin on the MCU (but is it CSEL or reset ???).. I am tempted to believe that we're talking about PCF2119 driver; let's find out ! :D
 

tiulian

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decided to try this again after getting a oscilloscope
Do you remember wich was the pin that showed up in the yellow channel (from your picture) ? I only managed to find out wich was SCL and SDA, but the yellow channel from your picture looks like a CSEL..
 

MartinGf

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You're banned from using this forum
It will be interesting to know if the problem has been solved and how, because I've faced with the same one recently.
 

Weasel

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Hi all!
The display of my Z-680 control pad just broke as well (no black digits anymore), so I googled how to fix this problem and came across this thread. When I opened my device, I found not a VDS display mounted, but a LUMEX LCM-E02002DTF-U. I also found a data sheet here: http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/244/LCM-E02002DTF-U-81450.pdf - I am not an electronic crack at all, but maybe it's of some use for anyone here. You will also easily find a commercial source to order the display ;-) I will try to replace mine, update you when it works...
 

CF Support2

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Took a look at the datasheet, and that is a bit of an "odd duck" of a display. We don't carry a direct replacement, and none of our partner factories have a direct replacement. The interface is SPI, not parallel - making it more "non standard". I checked all types of displays - COB, COG, OLED.

Good luck with the swap :)

Hi all!
The display of my Z-680 control pad just broke as well (no black digits anymore), so I googled how to fix this problem and came across this thread. When I opened my device, I found not a VDS display mounted, but a LUMEX LCM-E02002DTF-U. I also found a data sheet here: http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/244/LCM-E02002DTF-U-81450.pdf - I am not an electronic crack at all, but maybe it's of some use for anyone here. You will also easily find a commercial source to order the display ;-) I will try to replace mine, update you when it works...
 

Weasel

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Ups, the supplier told me that the display is not available any more. However I was told that there would be several alternatives available: Lumex LCM-S02002DSF (http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/244/LCM-S02002DSF-99386.pdf), LCR-U02002DSF-WH (http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/244/LCR-U02002DSF-WH-187703.pdf), LCM-H02002DTF (http://www.mouser.com/ds/2/244/LCM-H02002DTF-80627.pdf) or LCM-S02002DSF-Y. Since I am an absolute noob in this field, can you tell me if any of these options would work as replacement, and if yes how to wire it? Thanks a lot!
 
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