Posts Tagged ‘Static’

What is all the fuss about FOB?

Friday, July 30th, 2010

FOB is short for Free On Board or Freight On Board. In other words, who pays the freight from the factory to you?

We offer three options.

  1. F.O.B Origin: This term means that the customer is responsible for the international and domestic shipping on the product from the origin (China, Taiwan or some other origination point) to their dock.
  2. F.O.B Ship point: This means that the customer is responsible for the shipping from our (Focus) warehouse in Mesa, AZ to their dock.
  3. F.O.B Destination: This means that Focus is responsible for all shipping costs from the manufacturer to the end customer’s dock.

So what is the best option?  At Focus Display Solutions we recommend option 2, FOB ship point. This allows the customer to ship from AZ to their location on either their UPS, Fed Ex account or on the focus UPS account.

Our character and static LCD display modules are not as large as TFT liquid crystal displays.

Segment displays (static displays or glass displays), 7 (seven) segment, 14 (fourteen) segment and 16 (sixteen) segments are smaller and less expensive to ship then Alphanumeric LCD displays (aka: Character LCD’s).

The smaller character displays such as 8×1 LCD display, 8×2 LCD display, 16×1 LCD display, 16×2 LCD display, 16×4 LCD display are less expensive to ship than the 20×2 LCD display, 20×4 LCD display, 24×2 LCD display, 40×1 LCD display, 40×2 LCD display, 40×4 LCD display.

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The drive to have less

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

The current economy has driven business to do more with less. This is very true in the electronics industry.

We are constantly driven to manufacture Character, Graphic and Static (Segment) LCD Displays that take up less room and meets RoHS standards in a shorter amount of time.

The push to design products to use less power is not new. The International Energy Agency (IEA) is pushing to have the US meet new power saving requirements. The goal is to minimize the amount of power necessary when a product such as a cell phone is in ‘sleep mode’. See http://www.acoel.org/2009/02/articles/energy/climate/united-states-needs-to-get-on-board-in-2009-with-the-onewatt-initiative/

At Focus Display Solutions we are expanding our Character and Static LCD display modules to operate at 3.3V instead of the standard 5V. This is true for both our custom (engineered and designed) LCD display and standard LCD monochrome display.

Every Segment Display, 7 (seven) segment, 14 (fourteen) segment and 16 (sixteen) segment has the option of both 3.3 volt and 4.7 volt. All three options of segment displays (STN, TN and FSTN) are available. See http://focuslcd.com/static.php for more details.

We also offer Alphanumeric LCD displays, also known as Character LCD’s, in both 4.7 volt and 3.3 volt. The most common of these are 8 x 1 LCD Display, 8 x 2 LCD Display, 16 x 1 LCD Display, 16 x 2 LCD Display, 16 x 4 LCD Display, 20 x 2 LCD Display, 20 x 4 LCD Display, 24 x 2 LCD Display, 40 x 1 LCD Display, 40 x 2 LCD Display, 40 x 4 LCD Display,

All of our Numeric LCD Displays are monochrome.

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