vgPocket LCD datasheet

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vgPocket LCD datasheet

Post by Corscaria » Wed May 17, 2006 5:57 pm

Great news, I seem to have found the datasheet for the vgPocket Max LCD.
http://www.optrex.co.jp/us/product/cata ... 654aee.pdf

With this, it should be much easier and safer to use this cheaply aquired LCD in portables and other projects.

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Post by Nick » Wed May 17, 2006 9:23 pm

YESS!! I was wanting to use those wide, $50 screens!! AWESOME!
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Post by vskid » Wed May 17, 2006 9:42 pm

For some reason, I see nothing in that pdf.
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Post by scherzo » Wed May 17, 2006 9:45 pm

It only has RGB input from what I can tell. How easy is it to get RGB from composite?
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Post by tom61 » Wed May 17, 2006 10:10 pm

scherzo wrote:It only has RGB input from what I can tell. How easy is it to get RGB from composite?
For what we want, not very. definitely doable, but it'd be hard to make it portable size friendly, unless you you use SMT parts. You need a chroma decoder and sync seperator, and a handfull of supporting parts (caps, resistors, clock crystals, etc.) I have a professional made composite to RGB board with regular sized chips, and it's 3"x5".

It looks like the screen also needs a clock fed to it for the signal type being used. That makes it slightly more difficult to use with a RGB console. The good news with that is that the screen can be run in PAL or NTSC mode, with the right circuitry.

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Post by scherubino » Thu May 18, 2006 1:06 am

Corscaria,
You are truly the man! Everytime I go into Radio Shack I debate buying a few of those to portabilize, as they are on clearance.

This is exactly what I've been looking for.

Good Job!

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Post by gannon » Thu May 18, 2006 5:08 am

Anybody read the datasheet fully to see if it's digital or analog rgb input?

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Post by StuntMonkey » Thu May 18, 2006 5:57 am

Does Vcom (pin 15) stand for composite video?

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Post by gannon » Thu May 18, 2006 10:28 am

Probably ground (Vcom ~= Voltage Common)

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Post by jeep » Thu May 18, 2006 10:54 am

gannon wrote:Anybody read the datasheet fully to see if it's digital or analog rgb input?
It's Analog RGB, wrote on page 2. Page 18 has a composite video graph too.

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Post by vb_master » Thu May 18, 2006 4:26 pm

So we can use these?

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Post by tom61 » Thu May 18, 2006 7:35 pm

vb_master wrote:So we can use these?
Yes, but I'd recommend that someone that fully understands the datasheet for the screen hack it first, and creates a howto for the rest.

I need to print out a copy of the datasheet myself, and see if I can understand it a bit better. It's a bit hard to read onscreen, especially since some pages are rotated 90 degrees.

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Post by bioniclebert » Thu May 18, 2006 7:56 pm

vskid wrote:For some reason, I see nothing in that pdf.

I dont either :cry:
I tried running it in IE and Firefox, still no luck. Does it work normally for you other guys?
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Post by vskid » Thu May 18, 2006 7:59 pm

bioniclebert wrote:
vskid wrote:For some reason, I see nothing in that pdf.
I dont either :cry:
I tried running it in IE and Firefox, still no luck. Does it work normally for you other guys?
It works for me now, acrobat installed an update, and now it works. I don't know if the update did it or what, but it works now.
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