Well crap! Really must learn how to read. I was so excited when my 2 LCD displays arrived on Thursday. Today I carefully soldered on the ribbon cable and crimped the 16 pin socket onto the other end. Then plugged into the MODIO and applied power.
It lit up. But all sorts of odd blinking and the error light coming on while it's connected to MACH3. Unplug MACH3 and it stabilized. So that's problem #1.
Problem #2 is much worse. The characters weren't all in the correct spots and some appeared to be missing. A quick count showed the display was 16 wide, not 20. A look at the order online showed I'd ordered 16x4 displays.
Sigh... I've re-ordered two 20x4 but with shipping this project has been shifted sideways by a month or two now. Or earlier if they come earlier.
John Dammeyer
