Thread: Character LCD - RIP

Well its looks like my 40x2 Character LCD i bought of Magnetik has gone to the place where LCD's go when they die. STUPID ME!.


I believe i have rosted it, because the first time i wired it up, i really stuffed up, and amongst other things, had the +5v and gnd crossed. The chips got exceptionally hot, and the display didn't work.I used some header pins on the LCD board, and connected a ribon cable with an normal header block to it, then i soldered the individual ribons to the corresponding cables on my printer cable. I just assumed that the ribon on the far left was pin 1, the one next to it pin 2 etc. But as i found out the next day (when i found my multimeter) that that is not the case. And now the display doesn't work. Its actually like:

==== pin 2
==== pin 1
==== pin 4
==== pin 3
==== pin 6
etc..

I'm now in the market for another LCD, any one got one going cheap??