SEGMENT LED DISPLAY - change of colour
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2006 10:44 pm
You've probably heard me drone on in one of my earlier posts about my MaxPro1 led segment display. I was thinking of buying the lcd liquid crystal display but I like how my led display shows up easily in dark conditions.
As one of the sections keeps going out (i have to flick it to make it light up again) maybe it would be cheaper and just as easy to replace the segment unit part. In this case it is one complete unit of four sections, rather than four individual led segment units.
I had a look on the net and there are hundreds of diferent types and pinouts. How do i know what type this is, so i can go about finding a replacement in either red, or maybe another colour! Blue led's have become more available and cheaper recently, maybe they do a 4 in 1 blue led segment unit that would solder straight in.
Any ideas? My display is shown on my site below.
http://uk.geocities.com/m3sux/maxpro.html
As one of the sections keeps going out (i have to flick it to make it light up again) maybe it would be cheaper and just as easy to replace the segment unit part. In this case it is one complete unit of four sections, rather than four individual led segment units.
I had a look on the net and there are hundreds of diferent types and pinouts. How do i know what type this is, so i can go about finding a replacement in either red, or maybe another colour! Blue led's have become more available and cheaper recently, maybe they do a 4 in 1 blue led segment unit that would solder straight in.
Any ideas? My display is shown on my site below.
http://uk.geocities.com/m3sux/maxpro.html