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Modifying the screen to work with 5 Volts

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sotasystemssotasystems 11/07/2016 at 20:090 Comments

The screen won't work with 5 Volts out of the box, so it needs to be modified a litlle.

For that I soldered a wire to the power line and the 2nd pin of the power regulator IC and that does the trick:

I then soldered on wires to test it out to the corresponding pins:

And it works!

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