Pin voltage limitation

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Hi there:

I'm trying to develope a powerful navigator for motorbikes and therefore it needs a sun readable display for outdoors use.

I've been looking for such device on the internet, but after spending hours and hours in that operation I give up and that's the reason I'm writting here.

I'm actually using Arduino Due and 4.0" Waveshare 320x480 TFT display but it has not enough nits for being sun readable.

I've found some sun readable displays, along with their libraries, but they are not Arduino friendly and I don't have enough software knowledge for implementing it.

Does anybody know anything about sun readable displays for Arduino?

Thank you very much in advance.

Reagards.

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Go the other way: find out what types of displays motorcycles are using and then search for those display types with Arduino support.

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And maybe give us a clue what the requirements of the display are.

There are monochrome LCD transflective character displays that are visible in the brightest of sun, low power and will work with a 3.3V logic level DUE too.

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What does any of this have to do with the thread subject "Pin voltage limitation" ?

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Hi;

I'll try what you are suggesting (cedarlake) although I don't know anybody working in that kind of company, like TomTom or Garmin or Carpuride, or.....

@srnet 4.0" or 5.0" Color TFT Touch Display is enough for what I'm trying to develope. I'm also using SD card on it. It should be Color Display. For such size, I think there's nothing else that LCD TFT. What is important for project is display brightness but device should have display not less than what I said; 5.0" better than 4.0".

@camsysca I don´t know much about displays but I think that the more brightness a display needs the more power it needs to consum.

Thank you very much to everybody for your answer.

Regards.

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According to what you said, outdoors readability is what's most important. That doesn't necessarily mean high brightness.

It would be a good idea if you started out by researching what makes displays readable in sunlight.

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Check for TFT IPS displays, they have good visibility outside.
I have some, I could check under strong sun. But I think its acceptable, from what I remember.

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