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05/19/06 22:10
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#116719 - Internet is not SMS
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Please don't use SMS text abbreviations. It is difficult to read, and makes everyone angry. Nobody objects to your difficulties with the English language. They do object to your use of SMS text abbreviations, though.

You should, perhaps, after you've read the datasheets and application information to which people have referred you, consider driving one segment at a time. It will enable you to control the brightness of each segment very precisely with just one resistor on each cathode, and actually simplifies the code.

Rather than sending a "1" for each digit, you send a '1' for each segment in that digit, and probably won't need to use a buffer transistor. The digit select will, then, only have to sink the current required by one segment, since, for each digit time, only one segment will be enabled. You scan all digits first, as associated with each segment, leaving each digit "on" for the same amount of time, irrespective of its on/off state. Then, after scanning all the digits, you increment to the next segment. It works very well if you have little or nothing else to do at the time. This all depends on whether your microcontroller can both sink and source the necessary current to light a segment in your display. If so, then all is well. If not, you'll probably need a transistor or a segment driver, e.g. 74x240.

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TopicAuthorDate
multiplexing Direct Driv            01/01/70 00:00      
   not without buffers            01/01/70 00:00      
      yah            01/01/70 00:00      
         incomplete answer            01/01/70 00:00      
         200 mw 7seg, 89c51 uC            01/01/70 00:00      
      Current capabilities            01/01/70 00:00      
         ok i will use 15 mA of 7 seg            01/01/70 00:00      
            Think about it            01/01/70 00:00      
               Ghosting effect            01/01/70 00:00      
                  Yes, that's what I was thinking            01/01/70 00:00      
   how can i show my scimatic diagram            01/01/70 00:00      
      Newbie's Guide            01/01/70 00:00      
    please dear any one advise me            01/01/70 00:00      
      no one can            01/01/70 00:00      
      Some advice            01/01/70 00:00      
      Wrong way up!!            01/01/70 00:00      
         Common-Cathode and Common-Anode            01/01/70 00:00      
      Make a start            01/01/70 00:00      
   AT89c51            01/01/70 00:00      
   look up in the datasheet what is the max            01/01/70 00:00      
      i am using just for practice            01/01/70 00:00      
         I do not know what micro understands            01/01/70 00:00      
            how can its impossible            01/01/70 00:00      
               that's it            01/01/70 00:00      
                  :( i think i am so duffer            01/01/70 00:00      
                     that is not eben english            01/01/70 00:00      
                        ok now tel me that            01/01/70 00:00      
                           datasheet ?            01/01/70 00:00      
                           that does not matter            01/01/70 00:00      
                     English            01/01/70 00:00      
   you should be a novice like me            01/01/70 00:00      
      i will try my best for this mistakes :)            01/01/70 00:00      
         Internet is not SMS            01/01/70 00:00      
         some ideas            01/01/70 00:00      
            Eh???            01/01/70 00:00      

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