A problem with the baud rate seems like a good guess. If you connect row 5 and column 1 together on startup, either with a jumper or pressing the appropriate key on a keypad, you will enter a "Manual Override" mode. This mode will always startup with a 19,200 buad, so you should be able to ...

We have all manuals on our website ,but that seems to have some technical difficulties right now but paralex kept a copy as well rev 1.x and rev 2.x

Thanks for the URL. However, the display I have is not shown in the manual. It seems to be a special version just for the BasicStamp. There are no ...

The easiest way to set the unit to known settings is put on the manual override jumper and write your prefered settings to the unit when you have restored communication with it. See the manual for details

Thank you for your fast answer.

Unfortunately no manual came with the display and I don't ...

Hi !
I just purchased two of these from Parallax for a Basic Stamp 2sx project.

Unfortunately I can't get the display to work properly. I think it is a baud rate issue. The display lights up perfectly but when I send text only garbage appears.

I have tried all 9600 baud rates (16224, 240, 24816 ...