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Vfd

PPC · 2002-05-02 16:20:41

Farnell lost my broken 2x20 vfd and the guy i was dealing with has gone on holidays so their giving me a refund. So im gonna get a 4x20 vfd and should have it tomorrow :) Should be sweet along with my XP1900+, Soyo Dragon plus and 2x 512Mb ddr. Should have fun this bankholiday.

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02-05-2002 5:20pm

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PPC

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Farnell lost my broken 2x20 vfd and the guy i was dealing with has gone on holidays so their giving me a refund.
So im gonna get a 4x20 vfd and should have it tomorrow
Should be sweet along with my XP1900+, Soyo Dragon plus and 2x 512Mb ddr.
Should have fun this bankholiday.

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#2 02-05-2002 5:46pm
Gerry

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How are you interfacing this with your machine?

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#3 02-05-2002 6:15pm
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Originally posted by Gerry
How are you interfacing this with your machine?

They're electrically identical to an equivalent parallel character LCD, AFAIK - apart from consuming a bit more power (and there are no backlight pins)...

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#4 02-05-2002 7:35pm
PPC

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http://www.icehardware.net/guides/cheap_vfd
explains it all

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