toneburst Posted June 13, 2006 Report Share Posted June 13, 2006 OK, you all know how it is.... I'm filling the time while I wait for my kits to arrive from SmashTV trying to track down obscure enclosures, and lately, LCD displays. I have a blue-backlit 20x2 on order from a company in Hong Kong, but have been lusting after the CFAH2002A-RMC-JP (the red neg-mode 20x2) from Crystal Fontz. Unfortunately, while the displays themselves are very reasonably-priced, the company are US-based, and the P&P to the UK is 'prohibitive'. I've done a fair amount of googling around for a UK supplier for a similar product but without sucess- or at least have been unable to find anywhere that will supply in less than x number of units (where x is a number anywhere between 500 and 1000x the number I actually need).Does anyone happen to know of a UK or Europe-based supplier with a really good selection of different-coloured pos. and neg. character LCDs who will ship single units? I'm also very interested in white-backlit pos. and neg. displays, which I thing would go very nicely with an apple iBook/iMac-style white enclosure.Alternatively, does anyone else in the UK share my geeky desire for sexy displays that only an international order can satisfy, and would like to order some from the Crystal Fontz people and split the delivery charge? I'm happy to cover the re-delivery costs to other UK MIDIBoxers, as long as there aren't too many of you, of course.Cheers guys,Alexhttp://www.toneburst.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vektor Posted June 17, 2006 Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 I am looking for something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogah Posted June 17, 2006 Report Share Posted June 17, 2006 Be careful with the pictures from crystalfontz. I ordered the same LCD you are asking about and it doesn't look anything like the picture. I called their tech support to ask about this and the guy said thats just the way it is... I've been more wary of looking for nice colored LCD's from them now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneburst Posted June 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Realllllyy moogah- what did it look like when it arrived?Alexhttp://www.toneburst.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneburst Posted June 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 I'm wondering if http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch/partDetail.jsp?SKU=5005401&N=401 could be used with a couloured gel to make nice neg-mode displays in different colours. I guess it depends how bright the characters are. That could be pretty cool though, as you could use any colour you liked, since there are a wide range of lighting gel colours available.Anyone any thoughts?Alexhttp://www.toneburst.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogah Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 The background was bright red and the letters are pink. Like I said, nothing *at all* like the picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tos Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Sry for going offtopic but:1. What are the chances to just reverse the polarizer on LCD and get a negative colors?2. If your display is like 12 o'clock viewable would it be a solution to rotate the top polarizer for 180 deg. to get the 6 o'clock viewable screen?Tnx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneburst Posted June 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 The background was bright red and the letters are pink. Like I said, nothing *at all* like the picture.Cheers for clarifying for me moogah. That certainly does sound very different from the description. Mind you, maybe the one pictured on their site just has the contrast turned down lower (I'm guessing the contrast can be adjusted in some way)....I may be completely wrong on that one though. Maybe some sort of dark gel over the display would calm it down a little.Alexhttp://www.toneburst.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smashtv Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 The background was bright red and the letters are pink. Like I said, nothing *at all* like the picture.Like ToS said, that really does sound like it was assembled with the polar filter in the wrong way.A freind of mine owns a car stereo shop, and he got a lot of clarion decks in once with the polars in wrong, the whole display lit green as shipped, flipped the lens and they went to black/green (normal).BestSmash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogah Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 interesting!as it is now I assure you there is no way to make mine look like the picture by adjusting voltages, but this thing about flipping the lens is interesting.. care to elaborate?*going to check datasheet* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tos Posted June 20, 2006 Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 Read basics of LCDs, how they work: http://www.howstuffworks.com/lcd3.htmThen, open some poor electronic thing [usually some cheap calculator] that has LCD display and see if it's first "polarizing fim" is detachable from the glass part of LCD. If it is, try to flip it so you get a black screen instead of gray/green. Power on the device and see the change.Now, it won't look too good with non-backlit displays but with white backlight and one flipped polarinzing film, you get somethin' that you saw on the picture.EDITHere is what I had in mind: http://www.icehw.net/article.php?id=65 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toneburst Posted June 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2006 I just tried putting a variety of coloured plastic gels over the blue/white LCD on my Novation XStation, and it looks really cool! Some of them make the display unreadable (dark blue obviously doesn't work great), but most work really well. Orange and red seem to work really well.This is pretty cool, because it means you could effectively make yourself an lcd display of more-or-less any colour you like, as long as the lcd is bright enough to start with!Possibilities, possibilities....Alexhttp://www.toneburst.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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