[Elecraft] LCD

Sat Dec 21 12:37:05 2002

Hi

This is most likely very small static charges in the LCD. When you touch the
soldering iron you ground one side of the LCD making it switch states until
the charges equalize. Normal handling will sometimes do this also. It will
not harm the display

Don Brown
KD5NDB

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Magruder" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 7:03 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] LCD

> I waited a couple days to see if anyone explained why the LCD segments
> appeared when soldering.  I noticed the same thing and that started me
> thinking that I should have bought a better "expensive" iron than my old
> Radio Shack iron before starting on the kit.  My K2 is working fine and no
> harm seemed to have occured.
> Is it heat from the iron that make the segments appear?
> Or stray voltage?
>
> Bill
> KD7KST
>
>
> I just finished soldering the LCD on to the Front Panel board. While
> soldering the pins I noticed segments of the LCD would appear when the
> soldering iron touched the leads? Is is normal, or ok? I'm just wondering
> what was going on? My soldering iron is a Weller WTCPN which was grounded.
> Hope this didn't hurt anything, but I'm sure wondering what was going on!
>
> Jerry - NR5A
>
>
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