"xpyttl" wrote in message
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"Tim Wescott" wrote in message
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But first the obligitory assesment of assumptions: Why are LCD displays
not
an option? Could you drive an LCD from your PIC? I've seen info on
this
from the LCD manufacturers; it looks quite doable from a PIC.

I was wondering that myself. It's a whole bunch lower power than LEDs,
which seemed to be a requirement, and the circuitry is a pile simpler.
The
one requirement he did have was "durability" that maybe you could argue
LEDs
had a leg up on. Well, maybe with those teeny LED displays you could keep
the size smaller than an LCD, but I suspect you would more than make up
for
it in drive circuitry, unless maybe he's thinking surface mount.

Oh, and driving an LCD is a piece of cake from a PIC.

..I appreciate all the comments. The glass cases of the LCD- aside from
being large, is a bit fragile. This is going in a very small trail ready
radio- that may have to survive falls from 3000' rock cliffs. Already lost
an LCD that way.

Dale W4OP