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MOU-AL162A

USB LCD 16x2 1U HMI with 5V Power
MOU-AL162A

The MOU-AL162A is an economy 16x2 intelligent USB LCD display. Engineered to quickly and easily add a powerful HMI to any application.


Our Intelligent Character USB LCD displays provides you with a cost-effective industrial HMI user interface solution for that great product/project you are developing. This USB LCD displays features optional on-board medium digits, bar graphs and 3 GPOs will allow fast development for any application.


  • 16x2 USB LCD
  • Intelligent LCD
  • 1U form-factor
  • Available Interfaces: USB
  • Communication speed of 100Kbps
  • 5V voltage
  • 3 General Purpose Outputs
  • Software controlled contrast and brightness with configurable time-out setting up to 90 minutes
  • Built in Horizontal or Vertical bar graphs
  • Temperature of 0C to 50C
  • Fast and easy development
  • Designed, supported and Made in CANADA
  • Long life cycle
  • Customer headers available, please contact us
  • Semi-custom designs available
  • Long life production
  • Backed by Matrix Orbital's decades of research and development
Module
Family/SeriesEconomy Display
Module Width (mm)80
Module Height (mm)36
Screen
Display TypeCharacter LCD
Backlight TypeLED
Viewing Area Width (mm)64.5
Viewing Area Height (mm)15.5
Active Area Width (mm)56.2
Active Area Height (mm)11.5
Resolution Width (Pixels)80
Resolution Height (Pixels)16
Pixel Pitch Width (mm)0.6
Pixel Pitch Height (mm)0.7
Pixel Width (mm)0.55
Pixel Height (mm)0.65
Character Columns16
Character Rows2
Character Pitch Width (mm)3.55
Character Pitch Height (mm)5.95
Character Width (mm)2.95
Character Height (mm)5.55
FontJapanese, European
Viewing DirectionTop
Viewing Angle60
HMI
TouchscreenNone
KeypadNone
KeysNone
Haptic FeedbackNone
Audio FeedbackNone
GPO's3
Advanced GPO'sNone
DOWNone
Integrated LED'sNone
Electrical
InterfaceUSB
Command ProtocolMatrix Orbital
ControllerATMega8535
Negative VoltageNone
Backlight DriverIntegrated
Minimum Voltage (Vdc)5
Typical Voltage (Vdc)5
Maximum Voltage (Vdc)5
HeaderStandard
Environmental
Max. Operating Temp. (°C)50
Min. Storage Temp. (°C)-20
Max. Storage Temp. (°C)70

Documents

 File NameRevisionSize 
 File NameRevisionSize 
Economy Series  Economy Series Manual1.01.63MiB

Description

Hardware manual for MOI, MOS, and MOU series displays.

Economy Series  X-Board Hardware Manual1.0636.75KiB

Downloads

 File NameRevisionSize 
 File NameRevisionSize 
Alphanumeric Software  DisplayTunerPro v1.0.0.0 Software1.0.0.0802.25KiB

Description

Display Tuner Pro (MOCD#) is an update to our popular uProject testing software for Matrix Orbital displays.  It adds support for new features and displays, including legacy and graphic units, to our established base of features and scripting.  This tool supports all Matrix Orbital Intelligent and Economy Series displays, including the following:

  • GLK Series (GLK12232-25-SM, GLK12232-25, GLK19264-7T-1U, GLK24064-25, GLK24064R-25-1U, GLK240128-25)
  • GLT Series (GLT12232-SM, GLT24064R-1U, GLT24064, GLT240128)
  • GOK Series (GOK12232A-25-SM, GOK12832-25-SM)
  • LCD/OLED/VFD Series (LCD0821, LCD2041, OLED0821, OLED2041, VFD2041)
  • LK Series (LK162-12, LK162A-4T, LK162B-7T, LK202-25, LK204-25, LK204-7T-1U, LK402-25, LK404-25)
  • MOI/MOS/MOU Series (MOS, MOU, XBoard-S, XBoard-U)
  • OK Series (OK162-12, OK202-25, OK204-25)
  • VK Series (VK162-12, VK202-25, VK204-25, VK246-25)
  • And all Legacy Displays

Alphanumeric Software  Boot Edit524.62KiB

Description

Boot Edit is designed for modification of advanced features of the LK/VK/PK USB and MX series. This is a more advanced version of the Boot Logo software.

Boot Edit allows the setting of these features:

  • Custom startup screen using custom characters
  • Power on GPO and FAN settings, such as speed, and frequency
  • LCD Contrast, backlight brightness and VFD brightness

Compatible Displays:

  • LK/VK/PK202-25
  • LK/VK/PK202-24-USB
  • LK/VK204-24-USB
  • MOS-AL/AV/AP202
  • MOS-AL/AV204
  • All MX series

Only the MX and USB series support the Edit GPO Defaults section.

This application was written by Ray of LCD Studio. (Ray@lcdstudio.com)

Alphanumeric Software  Display Tuner407KiB

Description

This basic application allows you to test and set LCD Contrast, Brightness, VFD Brightness, set baudrate and send text to the display.

Compatible Displays:

All LK/VK/PK, MOS, MX and LCD/VFD series.

Alphanumeric Software  Custom Character Tool451.61KiB

Description

This simple program to give you hex values for custom characters.

This program allows you to see the hex values per lines for custom characters making implication easier. Simply download the program, uncompress and run. You will require Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1, it can be downloaded from here.


This application was written by Ray of LCD Studio. (Ray@lcdstudio.com)

For technical discussions and questions, please visit our forums

Alphanumeric Software  Boot Logo40.03KiB

Description

Boot Logo is designed for modification of the startup screen for some alphanumeric displays with startup screens.

The user has the ability to use the normal text from the display\'s font table, and the 8 custom characters.

Compatible Displays:

LK/VK/PK162-12
LK/VK/PK202-25
LK/VK/PK202-24-USB
LK/VK204-24-USB

MOS-AL/AV/AP202
MOS-AL/AV204

All MX series

This application was written by Ray of LCD Studio. (Ray@lcdstudio.com)

Alphanumeric Software  uProject1.42MiB

Description

uProject is an advanced testing software for Matrix Orbital displays. It allows testing of nearly all the features and allows test scripting and many other advanced features.

uProject (micro Project) is a series of different tools that should allow the testing of nearly all the features of most of our displays. uProject also features

scripting abilities to speed up testing or changing of a specific feature, such as backlight brightness or contrast.

 

All LK/VK/PK, MOS, MX and LCD/VFD series.

Application Notes

 File NameRevisionSize 
 File NameRevisionSize 
Application Notes  eGTT50-TPR Drawing (Rev 1.0).pdf327.29KiB

Description

TPN: non touch, TPR: resistive touch, TPC: capacitive touch

Application Notes  Arduino EVE UNO Example Code-1B

Description

Written for an EVE2 or EVE3 or EVE4 running on an Arduino UNO.

Application Notes  ESP32 EVE Example Code-1B

Description

Example code for the EVE on a ESP with the WEMOS D1 mini. Most models of the ESP32/ESP8266 should work, but are untested.


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