Wiring Arby Char LCD to PS

**CaffeineAddict** · 11-01-2001, 02:29 PM

Hello all, I just got my char LCD from Arby a couple days ago:
(The thread) http://www.mp3car.com/cgi-bin/ultima...c&f=4&t=000314

I am trying to figure out how to connect my 4 X 40 to the power supply. I have an avaiable 4 Pin Molex connector with and orange wire two black wires and a red wire. (I am going to guess that Orange=yellow).

What wires do I use to connect it, there is a red wire and a black wire on the LCD that is supposed to be connected to two of these wires.
(Again the order is orange,black,black,red)

Does anyone else have an Arby LCD that can help me out, or does anyone know the standard voltages on the wires from the 4-pin connector?

I don't mean to cross-post, but Arby seems to be out for awhile and wiring info doesn't really belong in the for-sale section so I am posting this here.

**peter3** · 11-01-2001, 05:38 PM

Don't go for the orange one it's 12 Volts

normaly the lcd's use 5 Volts
So take the red and a black one
Red from the lcd to the red from the conector
and the black from the lcd to the black from the conector.
good luck

Peter3
pwvanderveen at hotmail.com

**CaffeineAddict** · 11-01-2001, 06:08 PM

Does it matter which black I use??

**Rob Withey** · 11-01-2001, 06:44 PM

Originally posted by CaffeineAddict:
<STRONG>Does it matter which black I use??</STRONG>

No.

Rob

**Arby** · 11-01-2001, 07:53 PM

I'm back!

Red and black directly from the power supply is what you want, as everyone else seems to have told you already

**Vampyre** · 11-01-2001, 08:19 PM

excellent i was hoping i could wire mine up like that when it gets here. I am using the keyboard port and dont want to make an adapter.

**CaffeineAddict** · 11-01-2001, 10:46 PM

OK Thanks everyone, hopefully the others will have read this when they get theirs... I still haven't gone to get my parallel cable, but i will tomorrow and I'll tell you how it works out once I get it all wired together.

**daver** · 11-01-2001, 11:17 PM

I have an AT machine with a 4-prong thing (heck yes im a techie at this stuff, heh) . Its yellow, black, black, red. Im using this to power my hard drive actually. But off of this comes two small thin wires that are black/red, they twist around eachother. On the end of the wire is a little black rectangle box that would plug into the mobo, or come from an lcd or something like that. Can I use this to power the LCD? Thanks!

EDIT: btw its coming directly from psu
-dave

[ 11-01-2001: Message edited by: daver ]