bare touch screen cost lcd
Hi fireball003,
The price of new LCD panels and touchscreens is stupid. Mostly, not many of these are sold in small quantities, so any seller is going to charge a big premium for handling the small volumes. Only big purchases (10,000's) get decent prices.
Is this for a commercial design, or a on-off prototype, or just for you to play with?
If it's not commercial, your best bet is to find a surplus outlet or, if you can use eBay, find one on there. I've recently picked up on eBay a 6.4" 640x480 colour with serial touch panel and PC/S-Video/Composite input board for about £30 - a bargain! But they don't come up often and you might end up bidding against me ;-)
If you just want the bare touch panel and will make your own interface to it (not that hard with the chips from Maxim or TI) then you can often pick up the panels on eBay at good prices. It's the ones with a serial interface that generally attract higher prices, especially to the car hifi people.
6.4" LCD panels are seen on eBay quite often and usually go for around £20.
Or you could try here:
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If you ever find a company that will send samples of these, please tell me too!
Cheers,
FoxyRick.