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Texas Instruments DIS206A Nine-Digit Calculator LED Display

Features

These Nine-Digit Calculator Numeric Seven-Segment LED Displays are intended for use under pulsed conditions by enabling the common cathode of each digit sequentially and enabling the desired Segment and Decimal Point anodes in phase with the character enabling pulse. The pulse rate is kept high enough so that light from each character appears to the eye to be constant.

The DIS206A Nine-Digit display assembly manufactured by Bowmar uses Chip-on-Board (COB) technology with each character formed by bonding seven individual Segment LED chips and one Decimal Point LED chip directly to a printed circuit board (PCB) and protecting them with a one-piece flat protection lens.

0.12”/3.0 mm Characters
Seven-Segment Digits with Right-Hand Decimals
Continuous Uniform Segments
Wide Viewing Angle
Common-Cathode Configuration for Multiplex Applications
0.2”/5.08 mm Character Spacing
Integrated Red Plastic Lens

Family Members and Applications

Type Products Digits Comments
DIS206A TI-2550 Version 1, Display 3
TI-2550 Version 2
TI-2500-II
 

 

Genealogy

Type Products Relationship Comments
DIS134C TI-2500 Version 3, TI-2550 Version 1  Predecessor  Uses 9*DISXXX
R7H-122-9    Relative  Bowmar COB Technology
DIS206C TI-2550 Version 1, Display 2  Successor  Uses COB Technology with Magnifying Lens

 

Technical Specifications

Item Min Typ Max Unit Comments
Display
Width
  2.50
63.5
  inch
mm
  
Display
Height
  1.02
26.0
  inch
mm
  
Display
Depth
  0.10
2.6
  inch
mm
 Including Printed Circuit Board
PCB
Thickness
  0.03
0.8
  inch
mm
 FR4 
Lens
Width
  2.01
51.2
  inch
mm
  
Lens
Height
  0.54
13.7
  inch
mm
  
Lens
Depth
  0.07
1.8
  inch
mm
 
Character
Height
  0.120
3.00
  inch
mm
 
Character
Width
  0.085
2.20
  inch
mm
 w/o Decimal Point
Character
Slant Angle
  10   degrees   
Character
Spacing
  0.200
5.08
  inch
mm
 

Technology

The displays are formed by bonding monolithic GaAsP (Gallium Arsenide Phosphide) LED chips integrating either one character with seven Segment Bars or one Decimal Point, each directly to a double-sided FR4 printed circuit board (PCB) and placing a one-piece red acrylic protecting lens on top of the assembly with four heat stakes.

Packaging

The DIS206A uses a 2.50" / 63.5 mm by 1.02” / 26.0 mm rectangular printed circuit board (PCB) with 19 solder tabs with a 0.1” / 2.54 mm pitch arranged on the bottom of the display module.

Pin Configuration

 

Pin Pol. Function
1 A G Segments
2 2 Digit 9 (Minus Sign)
3 A F Segments
4 C Digit 8 (MSD)
5 A E Segments
6 C Digit 7
7   n.c.
8 C Digit 6
9 A Decimal Points
10 C Digit 5
11 A D Segments
12 C Digit 4
13   n.c.
14 C Digit 3
15 A A Segments
16 C Digit 2
17 A C Segments
18 C Digit 1 (LSD)
19 A B Segments
The Anode of the Segments A-G, Segment G (H) for minus sign of the Exponent and Right-Hand Decimals and the Cathode of the Digits 1-9 are connected to the display in the pictured way. 

Note: The DIS206A Display module has Segment B, Segment C and Decimal Point (Segment DP) LED chips of the leftmost digit not populated.

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If you have additions to the above datasheet please email: joerg@datamath.org.

© Joerg Woerner, December 25, 2024. No reprints without written permission.