Modding Noritake GU126x32F-K612A4 graphic VFD

CU20045SCPB-U1J - Yes you can!

Hello Morphine,

You can use the Noritake VFD in place of the MO LCD.
You need our driver board MCBK10HRB and a cable IFCK0659FD-800A
The MCBK10HRB does RS232 to 8 bit parallel (just like the MO driver board) and so should run with LCDC.
If you want to have some I/O you can use our MCBK09HRB.
Please mail me direct at p.dakin@noritake-itron.com and I'll email you the specs and tell you how best to obtain the board.

Glad you want to use our VFDs

Phil
Itron (UK) Ltd

 

From one frame to another, i either light up pixels or turn em off depending on my needs ..... lots of pre-coding work in photoshop to spot what pixels should be kept lit from one frame to another and which ones should be turned off ....

 

You use the clear pixel command, I forget the code, see the manual. I think it goes as [##16][##x][##y][##23], to clear pixel x,y.

Rob.

 

Re: CU20045SCPB-U1J - Yes you can!

There's no support for this controller in LCDC, you'll have to write it yourself which could take some time if you're new to this - but you can make it work (well mostly) because I did

Rob.

 

This is a general comment:

I think that Noritake-Itron kicks ass!!! Their displays are relatively resonably priced, (but could throw in a xmas special ya' know )

MO should have woken up along time ago on production of a graphic vfd of their own. Could this be an ATI vs nVidia situation, or is MO focusing on LCD's while Noritake on VFD's ?

 

ooooh I would love a VFD, but the MO ones are kinda pricey. But I guess for support in great software like LCDC its kinda worth it. even though there are other programs for these. grrr... I dunno....

 

Still OT.

Linear always says 'choose the software you want to use before you pick your display', and those are very wise words*

Rob.

*He's old, he'd allowed to be wise.

 

Hrm, I'm having an issue with my VFD

Hello, All.

Well, I was moving my case yesterday and unpluged my VFD from the power while it was still on thinking it shouldn't matter. Well, it does because when I went to hook it up again, I got nothing..

But, my quick thinking I said oh I know what it is the EEPROM is scrambled.. so I did the jumper trick... no luck. As I look at it the elements aren't lighting up either, so it's probably the High Voltage power supply or something to that effect.

Has anyone else done this? Any ideas for a fix?

I notice F1 on the the PCB was a bit black... but it does have continuity. So unless it's been blown a short, it appears good.
Cable countinuty is all good.

Anyways, any Ideas?

I e-mailed funks... so he might have an idea or two.

Regards,

Arlof

 

Has anyone got the VUMs in the new version of the winamp 2 plugin (V1.5) to work with this display?

I had a look but to no avail, please help - i'd love to have this display work like a frequency analyzer (the main reason i bought it)

 

I don't understand why u especially bought this display for using it as a VUM since its near impossible to do with lcdc, and i guess that's the prog ur using ....
It's been talked through quite a bit in this thread already, and only way around it would be to make a seperate prog or wait for lcdg which will do the job nicely ....

 

just a quickie...

probably best posting in the LCDC forum, but hey!

does anyone know whether LCDG will have support for parallel LCD's/VFD's?
I've seen quite a few graphic // ones that are much cheaper than their serial alternative...
if LCDG turns out to be serial only, no bother, I'll use PowerLCD instead (looks very nice!)

Cheers

 

Re: Hrm, I'm having an issue with my VFD

Not a clue, i unplugged mine while it was on many many times and had no problems... as Phil said somewhere in the depths of this thread, the vfd is very voltage input insensitive, I doubt the spike from hot plugging should be an issue.

Oh well hopefully noritake will repair your unit for you, it's clearly broken

Rob.

 

Re: Hrm, I'm having an issue with my VFD

The power supply does have a fuse - some-one earlier in the thread blew it trying to connect up the GPO's & the fix was to return the unit to Noritake to replace the fuse..

Hopefully funks can help ya out

 

VFDs Not Working - Fuses Blowing??

Hello Everyone,

We've had a couple of returns recently that have blown fuses. We can't find a reason for the fuses doing their job, which is always a little worrying, as they are there for protection and safety.
However, should this happen to your module, Itron (UK) Ltd is pleased to offer to replace the fuse at any time in our warranty period, (12 months from our shipment date), at our cost.
All we ask is that you pay the postage back to us, and if the problem is only a blown fuse, there is no other repair charge. (Other damage or non-warranty failures are chargeable)

Please though, before sending your display back, mail me at p.dakin@noritake-itron.com with your name, location, nature of the fault, and I'll give you our return address.

Seasons Greetings,

Phil
Itron (UK) Ltd

 

Cheese, you are a godsend!

I missed this the first loooooooong read i had through this post. Could you plz. give me the schematic ?

Also if I were to use the bigger GU126X64D-K610A4 vfd, would it work perfectly like the one in the thread? (I'm guessing you need new definition files etc... )

 

Hi there,

If you just look up the datasheet for the 1489 IC you'll see the schematic is very obvious (just power and earth to pins of the IC, serial in and TTL out to two more...). This chip will only work from RS232 to TTL (so you can make your computer send data to a TTL display, but not get anything back from it), this is fine unless you want to use flow control or the keypad interface...

As for your second question, http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14882



Cheers,

Rob.

 

Anyone Have these problems? I havent any replys

 

I was wondering if someone can convert this code into a "macro"

So that this code can be ran inplace of the "Bit-Tech" Logo on Start Up!

Im really crap at programming and that and i cannot get my head round the bytes and setting it up!

Can this be done with such a big graphic?

Thank You

Here is the Code!

Also.. If you have any Decent Screens Pls email me / MSN me!


crocket2k@hotmail.com

I created this from the Icon Program

PHP:

ClearDisplay,17,49,6,53,23,200,17,29,6,33,19,200,17,68,6,72,19,200,17,95,6,99,19,200,17,62,6,66,17,200,17,35,8,39,19,200,17,41,8,45,19,200,17,77,6,80,18,200,17,4,5,7,16,200,17,55,7,58,17,200,17,85,8,88,17,200,17,18,8,20,17,200,17,23,8,25,17,200,17,8,2,12,7,200,17,8,14,12,19,200,17,100,8,103,11,200,17,90,8,91,13,200,17,76,7,76,16,200,17,21,6,22,10,200,17,21,15,22,19,200,17,89,16,91,18,200,17,3,7,3,14,200,17,81,6,82,9,200,17,81,15,82,18,200,17,59,9,59,15,200,17,17,10,17,15,200,17,26,10,26,15,200,17,84,10,84,15,200,17,35,6,37,7,200,17,41,6,43,7,200,17,87,6,89,7,200,17,54,18,56,19,200,17,64,18,66,19,200,17,68,26,73,26,200,17,97,22,97,26,200,17,112,23,112,27,200,17,54,7,54,10,200,17,92,10,92,13,200,17,71,20,71,23,200,17,80,21,80,24,200,17,102,21,102,24,200,17,76,23,76,26,200,17,82,23,82,26,200,17,86,23,86,26,200,17,89,23,89,26,200,17,93,23,93,26,200,17,108,24,108,27,200,17,6,3,7,4,200,17,79,4,80,5,200,17,101,6,102,7,200,17,6,17,7,18,200,17,87,18,88,19,200,17,115,25,116,26,200,17,118,25,119,26,200,17,121,25,122,26,200,17,78,19,81,19,200,17,84,21,87,21,200,17,91,21,94,21,200,17,110,21,113,21,200,17,107,30,110,30,200,17,13,3,13,5,200,17,34,7,34,9,200,17,40,7,40,9,200,17,54,15,54,17,200,17,92,15,92,17,200,17,13,16,13,18,200,17,67,16,67,18,200,17,106,21,106,23,200,17,105,24,105,26,200,17,55,6,57,6,200,17,20,6,20,7,200,17,23,6,23,7,200,17,75,8,75,9,200,17,89,8,89,9,200,17,89,12,89,13,200,17,20,18,20,19,200,17,23,18,23,19,200,17,74,19,74,20,200,17,98,21,98,22,200,17,109,22,109,23,200,17,70,24,70,25,200,17,101,25,101,26,200,17,107,28,107,29,200,17,111,28,111,29,200,17,101,12,102,12,200,17,89,19,90,19,200,17,78,21,79,21,200,17,84,25,85,25,200,17,91,25,92,25,200,17,77,26,78,26,200,17,94,26,95,26,200,17,109,26,110,26,200,16,7,2,22,16,14,3,22,16,80,3,22,16,5,4,22,16,78,5,22,16,19,7,22,16,24,7,22,16,38,7,22,16,44,7,22,16,86,7,22,16,90,7,22,16,103,7,22,16,8,8,22,16,74,9,22,16,8,13,22,16,89,15,22,16,5,17,22,16,14,18,22,16,19,18,22,16,24,18,22,16,57,18,22,16,63,18,22,16,86,18,22,16,7,19,22,16,73,19,22,16,72,20,22,16,94,20,22,16,101,21,22,16,105,21,22,16,77,22,22,16,83,22,22,16,87,22,22,16,90,22,22,16,94,22,22,16,96,96,22,22,16,100,22,22,16,104,22,22,16,113,22,22,16,103,23,22,16,74,25,22,16,79,25,22,16,88,25,22,16,99,25,22,16,107,25,22,16,111,25,22,16,83,26,22,16,87,26,22,16,90,26,22,16,98,26,22,16,106,26,22

 

How much is this display, and anything extra i'll need t get it up and running? I'm 15 so no check or credit card. can cash in the mail work? I've got plenty of securit envelopes

 

To purchase the display you need to contact Noritake UK (try p.dakin@noritake-itron.com ).

To load something as a macro you need to obviously run the code into the display... this can be done command by command through the LCDC Test Display function.

A new version of my program will be out in mid-Jan enabling you to create code to do this for you (and hopefully the serial IO will be working too).