#FUTABA VFD SERIAL SOFTWARE#
#FUTABA VFD SERIAL PC#
#FUTABA VFD SERIAL TV#
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In order to make this happen, there's some work ahead. Of course we need to wire up the VFD display correctly if we want to see it in action. Now we will finally do awesome things with the VFD display such as enjoying its blue-green glow.

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Feel free to desolder the display from the old device. I assume that you have already found the perfect display. 99% something else went wrong in this device and the VFD is OK. I have came across a non working VFD in a non working device. Please avoid to take apart displays from working devices. Or just ask around in your neighborhood and sweep through the streets looking for electronics others threw away. Then, the 'crate of devices that are not working and you always wanted to throw away but never had time to' might be a great source too if you have such.

#FUTABA VFD SERIAL PC#

You won't be that lucky if you focus on PC motherboards.

#FUTABA VFD SERIAL TV#

They usually come along with old CRT TV circuit boards and other consumer electronics PCBs.

If not, t ry to browse through scrap lots carefully, for example on eBay. I do believe that there are sellers that still have these kind of displays. You can see the remaining circuit board on the bottom right picture. I took out this particular VFD display (it's a NEC FIP4B08) out of a PCB that might belonged to some household electronics device - something that had the ability to count the time but wasn't a clock itself. I salvaged mine from a scrap lot of old electronics I got off eBay (actually I went for some vintage CPUs for my CPU Museum but the display came with the lot so I decided to turn it into something useful again). The pic on the bottom left shows what I did with a display of the latter type. So displays that come in HiFi systems might be less suitable since they are too specific. Favorable are displays that make you think of a clock instantly like the one I got with 4 number digits and a digit for the dots. You wanna find a display that is suitable to be turned into a clock, something generic. So one of the first questions of course you might ask is where you can get a VFD that you can turn into a clock.

Datasheet of LM2577T and R90 note on schematics added. Initially it was 50k, but I've corrected it to 25k. Just a high school student fascinated by all that.

#FUTABA VFD SERIAL SOFTWARE#

Note that I am neither an electrical nor a software engineer. The circuits have been tested over and over again by me but I still can't guarantee that they are free of goofs and/or errors.

VFD Clock - Prototyping, PCB, Assembling ĭisclaimer: I am not responsible to anything you might do wrong with your components.

VFD Clock - The Hardware Design II: Schematics & How It Works.

VFD Clock - The Hardware Design I: Part List.

VFD Guide - Controlling Your VFD With A Microcontroller.

VFD Guide - Get To Know Your VFD Part II.

VFD Guide - Get To Know Your VFD Part I.

VFD Guide - Finding A (Suitable) VFD Display.

Introduction - The Arduino VFD Display Clock.

Got that I-want-to-do-it-too-feeling? Great, let's get started! The first one shows you how VFDs look different compared to LCDs and the second one shows how your clock could look like after assembling. Look at the pictures above that I took if you haven't seen how VFD displays look like yet. I'm not a native speaker - just for you to know if you're wondering why some sentences might make no sense at all. This is my first instructable here, showing you how I have designed built my clock and how you can build yourself exactly the same or a similar clock that utilizes the VFD display. That's why I decided to write this Instructable about a clock based on this technology. Vacuum fluorescent displays look really kinda fancy and cool to me, I really love the blue-green color. Used to replace Nixie tubes way back in the 1960s, they can be found in many of our consumer electronic devices. These displays have a characteristic beautiful bright blue-green colored glow in common: These are so called vacuum fluorescent displays ( VFDs) with outstanding brightness that look pin sharp. Do you (still) remember the display of your old CD player, HiFi system or car radio? Have you ever noticed the displays used at your local supermarket that shows you the scanned item and the price of it?

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