[sdiy] Pet Peeves

[rsdio at audiobanshee.com]

Yeah, man, “everybody” knows the segment names.

Still, would it have cost them that much in ink (or bytes) to actually put the names on a diagram in the data sheet? … just to prove that they weren’t the only ones who *didn’t* know?

Brian


On May 4, 2018, at 11:17 AM, Tim Ressel <timr at circuitabbey.com> wrote:
> To be fair it looks like the segment naming is pretty standard. Still it would nice to have it on the sheet.
> 
> --tr
> 
> On 5/4/2018 11:11 AM, Dave Magnuson wrote:
>> Now, how could that *possibly* be important.   Sheesh.
>> 
>> That's a pretty big omission
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Synth-diy <synth-diy-bounces at synth-diy.org> On Behalf Of Tim Ressel
>> Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 1:55 PM
>> To: SYNTH DIY <synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
>> Subject: [sdiy] Pet Peeves
>> 
>> Who's up for a Friday rant?
>> 
>> My pet peeve this morning: incomplete data sheets. I'm looking at the
>> Lite-On LTP-3862 and nowhere does it relate the segment names on the pins to
>> the segments on the display.