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Unread 07-03-2007, 14:05
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Jigar Patel
AKA: Jigar Patel
FRC #2185 (Etobicoke CI)
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LCD Doesn't work :(

I tried hooking up my LCD to TTL but it doesn't work Could it be that the TTL is not functioning properly or is it the wiring. I took the LCD and it has this backpack on it. http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/images/SerLCDv2-3.jpg

In the picture there are two but our backpac has the female end to it. and it has GND, 5V and RX so I took at pwm cable and placed it inside those three holes make sure that the black goes to GND, red goes to RX and white goes to 5V. Than I took that pwm cable and attached it to a TTL chip, the one that came with camera. Then mounted that TTL chip on the TTL port. After all that I took kevin's code and downloaded, because according to the code the LCD is suppose to work automatically I assume. I see nothing all blank no power nothing in LCD. Can someone please tell me where I possibly went wrong?
this is the LCD we are using:
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/ima...n-16x2-New.jpg