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Intelligent 20x4 Serial Charcter LCD display engineered to quickly and easily add a powerful HMI to any application. Versatile LCD2041 can be used with virtually any controller, has outstanding speed and is capable of bar graphs or large digits
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A product change notice has been released for this display. Change effective PCN 2023-03-22-01.
Please review thePCN 2023-03-22-01 for more information
The LCD2041 is an intelligent Serial 20x4 LCD display designed to decrease development time by providing an instant solution to any project. With the ability to communicate via serial RS-232/TTL and I2C protocols, the versatile LCD2041 can be used with virtually any controller. The ease of use is further enhanced by an intuitive command structure to allow display settings such as backlight brightness, contrast and baud rate to be software controlled. Additionally, up to thirty-two custom characters such as character sets for bar graphs, medium and large numbers may be stored in the non-volitile memory to be easily recalled and displayed at any time.
The LCD2041 comes in a wide variety of colors including the standard yellow/green or inverse yellow, the popular blue/white and the crisp white/grey as well as inverse red which is excellent for viewing at night. Extended voltage, and temperature options are also available, to allow you to select the display which will best fit your project needs.
Serial LCD Display: LCD2041
Intelligent 20x4 Serial Character LCD display
Built-in font with provision for up to 8 user-defined characters
Speeds from 1200 bps to a lighting fast 115.2 Kbps over RS-232
Communicate over RS-232, TTL or I²C
Use of up to 127 modules on the same 2 wire I2C interface
Software controlled contrast and brightness with configurable time-out setting up to 90 minutes
Horizontal or Vertical bar graphs
Variable power options, +5V or +8V to +24V
Extended temperature available for extreme environments of -20C to 70C
Fits our Dual PC Bay insert without any modifications
Display 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:
GLK Series (GLK12232-25-SM, GLK12232-25, GLK19264-7T-1U, GLK24064-25, GLK24064R-25-1U, GLK240128-25)
GLT Series (GLT12232-SM, GLT24064R-1U, GLT24064, GLT240128)
GOK Series (GOK12232A-25-SM, GOK12832-25-SM)
LCD/OLED/VFD Series (LCD0821, LCD2041, OLED0821, OLED2041, VFD2041)
LK Series (LK162-12, LK162A-4T, LK162B-7T, LK202-25, LK204-25, LK204-7T-1U, LK402-25, LK404-25)
MOI/MOS/MOU Series (MOS, MOU, XBoard-S, XBoard-U)
OK Series (OK162-12, OK202-25, OK204-25)
VK Series (VK162-12, VK202-25, VK204-25, VK246-25)
Boot 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:
Custom startup screen using custom characters
Power on GPO and FAN settings, such as speed, and frequency
LCD Contrast, backlight brightness and VFD brightness
Compatible Displays:
LK/VK/PK202-25
LK/VK/PK202-24-USB
LK/VK204-24-USB
MOS-AL/AV/AP202
MOS-AL/AV204
All MX series
Only the MX and USB series support the Edit GPO Defaults section.
This application was written by Ray of LCD Studio. (Ray@lcdstudio.com)
This 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.
This application was written by Ray of LCD Studio. (Ray@lcdstudio.com)
For technical discussions and questions, please visit our forums
uProject 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.