How much wire do you think I can have between the arduino and the display. Im using the Serial Interface Board if that makes a difference. I would like to use it 100 feet away.
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Basicly the i2c bus is Designed for short distances only. So i think that couldnt work Wirth this length.
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i would like to use the display to display the contents of the serial monitor. The serial monitor displays the content of other items that i do not want to display is there any way to program the display what to display and what not to display from the serial monitor.
IIC bus is not made for long distance, above 1 - 2 feets, it will not be reliable. Maybe you can try with shilded cable. There is drivers/recievers chips designed to drive IIC for long distance, you can search NXP P82B96 and PCA9600. An old topic exists:
http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php/topic,25188.0.html