Thread: WOOHOO! UPDATE- It's working! -- HELP! Ugly picture - sharp LQ9D161 and Allens Cont

Hi Everyone,
Sorry I haven't responded lately. The family (myself included) all had the flu for the last week. It's been pretty bad. There's been very interesting discussion here and I appreciate it.

Toto3,
Lowering the volatage may help. Please let me know if it works.

I agre with Plaiming2 though, we should keep the lsbs connected and not try things like ro to r2, etc.

Finally, don't worry about your english. It is actually quite good.

Plaiming,
I tried 256 colors and it didn't help.

Mp3Z24,
I'm using the backlight that Allen sold me with the controller. It seems to work almost OK on an LQ10D367. I still get funny red shading on that one. All other colors look great. Even in DVD (except for red shading of course)

This weekend I'll do more work on it and report the results. I've been busy at work and haven't had time lately.

But I gotta admit, I've spent quite a bit of time and money on LCDs and controllers lately and am starting to wonder if it was worth it to get VGA versus composite. I could have been miles ahead in this project by buying a composite video screen from ebay. Oh well live and learn.

Don't let me give up guys! The payoff could be awesome if these 8.4" LCDs look good in my car!

Thanks Again,
Pigseye

[ 02-14-2002: Message edited by: pigseye ]

hmm.. wouldn't one want to try and connect most significant bits rather than the lower significant bits? The reason I say this is because suppose the color is color 110000 in binary (48).. if you connect the 4 least significant bits you would connect the pins that are 0000, therefore showing 0 when the color should be 48.. Is this right? It makes sense but I dunno.. theres really no harm such as frying your LCD or controller so doesnt hurt trying (unless you permanently soldered all the junk already)

Jason

pigseye: did you get your screen from "DenenisK" from ebay caus i won an auction from him, paypaled him and since payin him havent heard anything for a week now, hes got a high ebay rating though, but still a bit worried.

PaulzY - I got mine from him. He's not the best communicator and he's kinda slow, but you'll get your screen. I think it ended up taking like 2 and a half weeks for me, but that was during the 9/11 thing and the airports were shutdown and all that jazz.

ive emailed him a few times politely, asking if he had recieved payment, or if he has sent it, but no response, (included item #) so ill guess il wait bit more. i dont mind if it takes a while just wish he would reply.

also he said it comes with a inverter so hopefully i wont run into these troubles, and i hope you yours workin pigseye, as Meatballman's looks good. (lol @ referring to these nicknames.)

[ 02-15-2002: Message edited by: PaulzY ]

Hi Paulzy,
Yeah I called him on the phone to get clarification on another question and he filled me in on the status. He seems like a good guy.

At the time he had a real bad cold and fell behind in all his shipments. He said he couldn't even get caught up. To me that means you should stop placing auctions until you are caught up, but hey, that's me.

He also told me that if you ordered a controller card it would at least 2 weeks longer than normal because he was getting the card from another state and had to get everything bundled together.

My LCD order was w/o a controller card so I got it in a couple weeks.

Chances are he just got swamped with orders and never got caught up. Again, He sure seemd like a straight shooter and a good guy, Just a little over committed.

If you don't hear from him in a couple of weeks I'd call him up.

Now about the LCD and Allen's controller combo, it's still not working. I'm not sure what to do now. I'm going to take a look at the 5v verus 3.3v output thing to see if that makes a difference. Kind of makes sense though since if the picture is fading in the movie (like fade to black) It looks great for a second before going black.

I'll keep plugging away and get back to you guys.

Thanks,
Pigseye

Infrared,

re:
"hmm.. wouldn't one want to try and connect most significant bits rather than the lower significant bits? The reason I say this is because suppose the color is color 110000 in binary (48).. if you connect the 4 least significant bits you would connect the pins that are 0000, therefore showing 0 when the color should be 48.. Is this right? It makes sense but I dunno.. theres really no harm such as frying your LCD or controller so doesnt hurt trying (unless you permanently soldered all the junk already):

I don't know much about LCDs so I'm here to learn It makes sense to me but since I don't uderstand I believe whatever people tell me.

Can any one comment on Infrared's suggesetion? What he's saying is connect

r0 to r2
r1 to r3
r2 to r4
r3 to r5...

Thanks,
Pigseye