RG1602A 16x2 3.3V Alphanumeric LCD - Blue Background

RG1602A 16x2 3.3V Alphanumeric LCD - Blue Background

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This is a popular 16x2 LCD With Blue Backlight display. It is based on the HD 44870 display controller which makes it is easy to interface this lcd most microcontrollers. Its extreme popularity ensures that no matter which micro controller platform you are using, you will definitely find ready libraries to use this LCD.

It works of 3.3v and has a blue backlight which can be switched on and off as desired. The contrast of the screen can also be controlled by varying the voltage at the contrast control pin (pin 3).

LCD modules are very commonly utilized in most embedded projects, the rationale being its cheap price, availability and programmer friendly. Most folks would have encounter these displays in our day to day life, either at PCO’s or calculators. The appearance and therefore the pinouts have already been visualized above now allow us to get a touch technical.

If you would like to feature some visual output to your Arduino projects, you’ll need a display. If you would like only little to display, the LCD1602 Parallel LCD Display may be a quite good solution

16×2 LCD is known as so because; it's 16 Columns and a couple of Rows. There are tons of combinations available like, 8×1, 8×2, 10×2, 16×1, etc. but the foremost used one is that the 16×2 LCD. So, it will have (16×2=32) 32 characters in total and each character will be made of 5×8 Pixel Dot.

Specifications

• Model Number : RG1602
  
• Controller OR driver : HD44780 Equivalent LCD Controller/driver Built-In
• Backlight Color : Blue
• Voltage : 3.3V DC
• Frequency : 50 Hz
• Character Capacity : 16 X 2
• Display Size : 80 X 36 X 12.5 mm