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RGB backlight positive LCD 16×2 + extras Adafruit

Original price was: $ 12,95.Current price is: $ 7,77.

SKU: mode_6294952836 Category: LCDs & Displays Tags: backlight, Character, lcd, LED, LEDs, positive, RGB, updated 01-23

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This is a fancy upgrade to standard 16×2 LCDs, instead of just having blue and white, or red and black, this LCD has black characters on a full color RGB-backlight background! That means you can change the background color to anything you want – red, green, blue, pink, white, purple yellow, teal, salmon, chartreuse, or just leave it off for a neutral background. This LCD is the most daylight readable character LCD we have and is very beautiful and easy to read no matter what color/brightness you have for the backlight.

Adafruit had these custom made to our specification so that you can use them in existing LCD projects and they’ll still work – just that only the red LED will be used. The extra two pins (17 and 18) are for the green and blue LEDs. The LCD has resistors on board already so that you can drive it with 5V logic and the current draw will be ~20mA per LED. There’s a single LED backlight for the entire display, the image above showing 3 colors at once is a composite!

Comes with a single 16×2 RGB backlight LCD, 10K necessary contrast potentiometer and strip of header. Adafruit’s tutorials and diagrams will have you up and running in no time!

For more information, check out this detailed step-by-step tutorial for both Arduino & CircuitPython.

Technical Details

16 characters wide, 2 rows
Black text on multi-color background
Connection port is 0.1″ pitch, single row for easy breadboarding and wiring
Pins are documented on the back of the LCD to assist in wiring it up
Single RGB LED backlight included can be dimmed easily with a resistor or PWM and uses much less power than LCD with EL (electroluminescent) backlights
Each R, G, & B LED has a 200 ohm resistor in series so you can power the backlight from 3V or 5VDC. R forward voltage is ~2.2V, G & B are ~3.4V
Can be fully controlled with only 6 digital lines! (Any analog/digital pins can be used) and 3 PWM pins for the backlight
Built in character set supports English/Japanese text, see the HD44780 datasheet for the full character set
Up to 8 extra characters can be created for custom glyphs or ‘foreign’ language support
Comes with 10K necessary contrast potentiometer and strip of header
Screen Dimensions: 27mm x 71mm / 1.1″ x 2.8″

Revision History:

Note: As of Thursday, May 26th 2016, we are shipping the revised version of this product. The 4 mounting holes are now 3.2mm (.125″) instead of 3mm (.118”)

Because these were custom made, we don’t have a full datasheet, however, the dimensions and pins should match this diagram and the controller will be a HD44780-compatible, see the HD44780 datasheet with the detailed commands for control

For more information, check out this detailed step-by-step tutorial for both Arduino & CircuitPython

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Note: Orders with more than one item will be assigned a separate processing time for each item.

Before shipment, all ordered items will be thoroughly examined. Most orders are now shipped within 48 hrs. Delivery is expected to take between 3 and seven days.

Returns

Stock is dynamic, and cannot be fully controlled by us because of the involvement of multiple parties including the factory and our warehouse. This means that the actual stock could alter at any time. It's possible that the stocks could be depleted after your order has been processed.

The policy is for 30 days. Unfortunately, if 30 days have passed from the date you purchased the item, we will not be able to provide a refund or exchange.

The item must not be in use and must be in the original packaging. You must have the item in the original packaging.

RGB backlight positive LCD 16×2 + extras Adafruit

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