{"title":"Red 7-segment clock display - 1.2 digit height","handle":"red-7-segment-clock-display-1-2-digit-height","url":"/products/red-7-segment-clock-display-1-2-digit-height","description":"   I like big seven-segment displays and I cannot lie! Design a clock, timer or counter into your next project using our pretty, candy-bar sized 4-digit seven-segment display. These bright crisp displays are good for adding numeric output. Besides the four 7-segments there is a top right dot (perhaps useful as a degrees symbol) and two sets of colon-dots (good for time-based projects).\nThese are 38mcd bright per segment. Each segment is made of two LEDs in series for even coloring (check the datasheet for a diagram). You can drive these with less current to get the same brightness to save power, or crank them up to 20mA and have them at their&nbsp;brightest.These displays are multiplexed, common-cathode. What that means it that you can use a 74HC595 or just 8 microcontroller pins if you can spare them to control the 8 anodes (7-seg + decimal) at about ~15mA each, and then connect NPN transistors or a TPIC6B595 to the cathodes to sink the 8*20mA = ~120mA maximum per digit.\nWe strongly recommend getting our backpack version, which comes with an LED driver on the back. This version is just the raw display, and requires a lot more work to get running!These come in a bright red color, we also have many other sizes and colors! ","vendor":"Adafruit","product_type":"physical","in_stock":true,"options":[{"name":"Title","values":["Default Title"]}],"variants":[{"id":15469,"title":"Default Title","sku":"AF-1264","price":16.93,"compare_at_price":0.0,"on_sale":false,"in_stock":true,"available_quantity":4,"option1":"Default Title"}]}