computergeekguy wrote:
thanks
I have a few more questions. On the schematic what does the “VCC” stand for and where does it go?
Vcc is +5V e.g. same as Vdd in the pinouts.
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Also on the schematic coming on the LCD pin “A” what is that on the lead and what is the 1.5 referring to?
It's a 1,5 ohm resistor for the led backlight. Because you have the EL backlight you don't use that and also you don't connect the pin to Vcc (+5V), but instead the A and K pins go to inverter. You can leave out the inverter at first to see that everything else is working.
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Oh, and what kind of an inverter do I need and where would I get one?
I noticed that in the data sheet there was something mentioned of 110V AC / 400 Hz.
So where do you live ? It's little hard for me to know where to get it, but there was something mentioned about inverters at hard forum while ago:
http://www.hardforums.com/showthread.ph ... did=458170
From
http://info.digikey.com/T022/V5/0943.pdf
Size of your display is 60.0 x 32.6 mm so the size of your EL element is something like ~20 cm2 (3.3x6 cm).
Based on that NDL-202 should work for you.
http://www.jkllamps.com/briefs/NDL202.pdf
http://rocky.digikey.com/scripts/Produc ... &M=NDL-202
I guess that some basic EL backlight inverter would work fine.