On 03/03/2013 01:39 AM, Jim Lux wrote:
On 3/2/13 4:12 PM, Magnus Danielson wrote:
On 03/03/2013 01:00 AM, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
Perhaps you can detect EMI from the device especially if you put it it a
shielded metal box with pickup antenna. You might be able to get the
clock right from that.
Well, considering that actively "driving" a LCD segment involves passing
an AC field over it, in electrostatic drive, you could detect the
existence of AC or not on a segment, but you would have to "mask out"
that of other segments. On the other hand, you can expect a multiplexed
drive. An E-field detector as such would be able to pick up the shifts.
Wonders if the multiplexing is done by the same clock or a free-running
clock. If it is the same clock, just picking up the E-field from the
multiplex suffice to detect the clock ticking.
OH, ho.. this is clever.. Time to get the scope probe out.. Find the big
peak, work out a quick and dirty analog filter, run it to the counter...
Thanks. It's physics applied, knowing the basics and work from there.
I would suspect that the multiplexing comes off the same oscillator, the
whole thing probably runs off a 32 kHz clock crystal.
Most probably. You would probably enjoy having a JFET amplifier in there.
Cheers,
Magnus
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