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2020-08-31 6:08 am
I suspect it's because it is a 3.3 volt display but messing around with mine I added a potentiometer to the backlight and while moving wires around noticed it was still running. With no power supply! So I yanked the one going to the backlight. And the ground. Still runs! So I went from eight wires down to 5!
Perfect is the enemy of good. Hotglue is not a crime!
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2020-08-31 6:11 am
If anyone has a way to measure current draw on a display like this running normally and running just on the logic power I am quite curious. Will this extend battery life?
Perfect is the enemy of good. Hotglue is not a crime!
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2020-08-31 9:10 pm
Well turns out this display is a Unicorn. I have five of them and only one has this strange ability to run without being hooked up to power. I tested the pins and nothing is shorted out. I tried jumping the digital pins to the VCC pin on another display but only succeeded in burning it out. Oh well. I labeled it "Unicorn" for further study in the future.
Perfect is the enemy of good. Hotglue is not a crime!