Originally Posted By: woops
mlord,

please mention:

once you solder the small wire to the #8 leg of the chip and you are ready to reattach the display cable note:

the display cable goes right over the wire you just soldered to #8 and may push this wire down, THEREFORE, don't cut a large lead for this end and put some cardboard under the solder joint so there is no chance this joint/wire will touch other components. just be careful about this issue.


I used a small enough wire here that this wasn't a problem, though it could be if pin-8 were bent too high up.

Note that the adjacent pin-7 is a no connect pin, though, so it doesn't harm anything if it accidently contacts the modified pin-8.

Thanks for helping me help others here!

Cheers