My obscure interest: Vacuum Fluorescent Displays

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Usehttp://wayback.archive.org/web/

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Oh. I meant gone from "stock" Meaning you cant purchase them anymore.

I guess i got mine while i could. shoulda got more.

Here is a youtube video of mine when I built a breadboard based VFD controller that ran off the PC parallel port back in 2006 i think it was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_U-Fb5F-Ww

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Here is the FIP display I was referring to.

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Here is pretty much my entire collection of VFDs. There are a few I missed which I will post later, mainly the 50 or so Soviet-era Russian VU meters.

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some more of them

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And the last of them. This is a large collection. lol.

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Originally Posted by mbates14

Here is the FIP display I was referring to.

http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=420169
philips-dcc900http://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/phi..._dcc_recorder/

AND i haw dream to mod my VCR grundig vs220
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Here are the few that I forgot:

the graphics VFD was a chip-on-glass one that I had gotten, no datasheet or pinout available, so i had to reverse engineer it myself. Although with the ghosting, I never did get too much further with it. My guess was it was a 3.3V VFD that I was driving with 5V.

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Here is the 50+ russian VFDs that I had gotten.

Shown is the new control board I had developed for them, So i can control the tubes digitally. Unfortunately the project was sidelined becuase I used 2 ICs that are no longer available. the LM9022 and A6810.

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Oh, and I cannot forget this gem:

Here is a set of GM VFDs that I re-purposed for use in a golf cart, digital cluster. It worked until the rain finally got it. lol.

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Originally Posted by mbates14

Here are the few that I forgot:

the graphics VFD was a chip-on-glass one that I had gotten, no datasheet or pinout available, so i had to reverse engineer it myself. Although with the ghosting, I never did get too much further with it. My guess was it was a 3.3V VFD that I was driving with 5V.

I found out that these VFDs were used in the 2008ish era chrysler factory radios.

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A few new ones added to my collection, AND a noritake VFD sample from noritake themselves, KS0108 compatible!