M.Imran Ali
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I am doing a project and using 20X4 lcd with pic18f452 . It works for some days well but after some days lcd starts to show black boxes , or illegal characters . What can be the problem ? Hope you can help me
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Sorry to interrupt this thread, but i also have a similar problem .. I have a 16x2 LCD which was working fine .. But for some days, the LCD is showing partial Black Boxes (pixels) over every character .. I also changed the contrast POT and rechecked my connections, but no change ..
Hi,
What value Pot are you using ?
Is your + 5v power supply stable ?
Are you using the backlight, if fitted and how is it powered ?
I used 10K POT and also tried by using 5K POT .. Yes, 5V supply is stable .. Yes, i am also using Backlight, backlight is powered by the same Vcc and GND which are used to power the LCD ..
Hi,
That all sounds ok, and if your text is still actually visible and correct, then it sounds like a fault on your contrast circuity.
Its so easy to get a short on those lcd connectors, or a connection break, though hard to spot.
If you cannot see any such connection error then can only suggest you try a replacement lcd.
As I wrote earlier, reinitialize the LCD from time to time.
You have noise problem, that's why you observe additional pixels around characters.
Get rid of noise and reinitialize LCD at regular intervals.
Your "some intervals" should be regular intervals, eg. 1 minute or so.
Unfortunatelly, my crystal ball has not yet arrived from polishing :-( to be able to pinpoint the source of gthe problem :-(