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I was wondering if someone could help me through this. I'm attempting to wire the LCD, so I have a 16P cable attached to an IDC connector. Obviously, the pinouts are not 1:1 to SmashTV's CORE board. Here's the data sheet: http://www.microtipsusa.com/product_pdfs/Character/20x2/20200B%20(White%20LED)/MTC-S20200BMNHSGW.pdf Ok, so I'd like to make my life as easy as possible, so I soldered a 16p DIL (male) header to the back of the LCD (the long ends are poking out the back side. The question is this: I'd like to put an IDC header on the other end of the cable I've already made, but I have to re-arrange the cables in order to match the pinouts on the CORE board. How do you do this? Do you just take each conductor, one by one, stick it through the connector, hope they stay in place, and finally clamp it down? Also, about the pinouts of the LCD: when the LCD is face-down, obviously, the pinouts are reversed. So starting from bottom-left-to-right, going up, they'll be 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc...but on the flip side, they'll be 2, 1, 4, 3, 6, 5, etc... Does this mean that the pins on the connector should be swapped, too? In other words, the arrow on the IDC connector signifies pin1, but when the LCD is face down, the arrow will really mean pin2, right? I'm probably thinking too hard about this.