MOS-AL162F
16x2 serial intelligent small LCD display. Engineered to quickly and easily add a powerful HMI to any application. Tiny and Mighty!
Our smallest LCD. Tiny and Mighty!
The MOS-AL162F is small intelligent 16x2 Serial LCD display. Engineered to quickly and easily add a powerful HMI to any application.
Our Intelligent Character Serial LCD displays provides you with a cost-effective industrial HMI user interface solution for that great product/project you are developing. This Serial intelligent small LCD display features optional on-board large and medium digits, bar graphs and 3 GPOs will allow fast development for any application.
- 16x2 Serial LCD
- Intelligent interface
- Transflective sunlight readable LCD
- Small LCD 1U form-factor
- Available Interfaces: Serial RS232 and TTL
- Communication speed of 9600 and 19.2k hardware selectable
- 5V voltage
- 3 General Purpose Outputs
- Software controlled contrast and brightness with configurable time-out setting up to 90 minutes
- Built in Horizontal or Vertical bar graphs
- Temperature of 0C to 50C
- Fast and easy development
- Designed, supported and Made in CANADA
- Long life cycle
- Customer headers available, please contact us
- Semi-custom designs available
- Long life production
- Backed by Matrix Orbital's decades of research and development
| Module | |
| Family/Series | Economy Display |
| Module Width (mm) | 69 |
| Module Height (mm) | 21.5 |
| Screen | |
| Display Type | Character LCD |
| Backlight Type | LED |
| Viewing Area Width (mm) | 51 |
| Viewing Area Height (mm) | 14.8 |
| Active Area Width (mm) | 47.56 |
| Active Area Height (mm) | 11 |
| Resolution Width (Pixels) | 80 |
| Resolution Height (Pixels) | 14 |
| Pixel Pitch Width (mm) | 0.52 |
| Pixel Pitch Height (mm) | 0.62 |
| Pixel Width (mm) | 0.48 |
| Pixel Height (mm) | 0.56 |
| Character Columns | 16 |
| Character Rows | 2 |
| Character Pitch Width (mm) | 3 |
| Character Pitch Height (mm) | 6.1 |
| Character Width (mm) | 2.56 |
| Character Height (mm) | 4.9 |
| Font | Japanese |
| Viewing Direction | Bottom |
| Viewing Angle | 60 |
| HMI | |
| Touchscreen | None |
| Keypad | None |
| Keys | None |
| Haptic Feedback | None |
| Audio Feedback | None |
| GPO's | None |
| Advanced GPO's | None |
| DOW | None |
| Integrated LED's | None |
| Electrical | |
| Interface | RS232, TTL |
| Command Protocol | Matrix Orbital |
| Controller | ATMega8535 |
| Negative Voltage | None |
| Backlight Driver | Integrated |
| Minimum Voltage (Vdc) | 5 |
| Typical Voltage (Vdc) | 5 |
| Maximum Voltage (Vdc) | 5 |
| Header | Standard |
| Environmental | |
| Max. Operating Temp. (°C) | 50 |
| Min. Storage Temp. (°C) | -20 |
| Max. Storage Temp. (°C) | 70 |
Documents | |||||||
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| File Name | Revision | Size | |||||
| File Name | Revision | Size | |||||
| Economy Series |
 Economy Series Manual | 1.0 | 1.63MiB | DescriptionHardware manual for MOI, MOS, and MOU series displays. | |||
| MOS Series |
PCN 2024-12-02-01 MOS-AL162F.pdf | 374.05KiB | DescriptionHeader population changes | ||||
| MOS-AL162F |
Manual for PCB Revision 1.0 | 1.0 | 1019.46KiB | DescriptionManual for PCB Revision 1.0 | |||
| Economy Series |
X-Board Hardware Manual | 1.0 | 636.75KiB | ||||
Downloads | |||||||
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| File Name | Revision | Size | |||||
| File Name | Revision | Size | |||||
| Alphanumeric Software |
 DisplayTunerPro v1.0.0.0 Software | 1.0.0.0 | 802.25KiB | DescriptionDisplay Tuner Pro (MOCD#) is an update to our popular uProject testing software for Matrix Orbital displays. It adds support for new features and displays, including legacy and graphic units, to our established base of features and scripting. This tool supports all Matrix Orbital Intelligent and Economy Series displays, including the following:
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| Alphanumeric Software |
Boot Edit | 524.62KiB | DescriptionBoot Edit is designed for modification of advanced features of the LK/VK/PK USB and MX series. This is a more advanced version of the Boot Logo software. Boot Edit allows the setting of these features:
Compatible Displays:
Only the MX and USB series support the Edit GPO Defaults section. This application was written by Ray of LCD Studio. (Ray@lcdstudio.com) | ||||
| Alphanumeric Software |
 Display Tuner | 407KiB | DescriptionThis basic application allows you to test and set LCD Contrast, Brightness, VFD Brightness, set baudrate and send text to the display. Compatible Displays: All LK/VK/PK, MOS, MX and LCD/VFD series. | ||||
| Alphanumeric Software |
Custom Character Tool | 451.61KiB | DescriptionThis simple program to give you hex values for custom characters. This program allows you to see the hex values per lines for custom characters making implication easier. Simply download the program, uncompress and run. You will require Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1, it can be downloaded from here.
For technical discussions and questions, please visit our forums | ||||
| Alphanumeric Software |
Boot Logo | 40.03KiB | DescriptionBoot Logo is designed for modification of the startup screen for some alphanumeric displays with startup screens. The user has the ability to use the normal text from the display\'s font table, and the 8 custom characters. Compatible Displays: LK/VK/PK162-12 MOS-AL/AV/AP202 All MX series This application was written by Ray of LCD Studio. (Ray@lcdstudio.com) | ||||
| Alphanumeric Software |
uProject | 1.42MiB | DescriptionuProject is an advanced testing software for Matrix Orbital displays. It allows testing of nearly all the features and allows test scripting and many other advanced features. uProject (micro Project) is a series of different tools that should allow the testing of nearly all the features of most of our displays. uProject also features scripting abilities to speed up testing or changing of a specific feature, such as backlight brightness or contrast.
All LK/VK/PK, MOS, MX and LCD/VFD series. | ||||
Application Notes | |||||||
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| File Name | Revision | Size | |||||
| File Name | Revision | Size | |||||
| Application Notes |
eGTT50-TPR Drawing (Rev 1.0).pdf | 327.29KiB | DescriptionTPN: non touch, TPR: resistive touch, TPC: capacitive touch | ||||
| Application Notes | Arduino EVE UNO Example Code | -1B | DescriptionWritten for an EVE2 or EVE3 or EVE4 running on an Arduino UNO. | ||||
| Application Notes | ESP32 EVE Example Code | -1B | DescriptionExample code for the EVE on a ESP with the WEMOS D1 mini. Most models of the ESP32/ESP8266 should work, but are untested. | ||||
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