AVR-Chat

Chris,
Have you seen this display: http://crystalfontz.com/products/2002z/index.html  ?  We get all our LCDs from them and have had wonderful service and quality.

BTW, unless you're doing high volume (>10K month), noritake won't bother talking to you.  The best place for low volume VFDs is at:  www.newhavendisplay.com.  We've done several custom VFDs with them and they're great to work with.

The other option is large starburst LEDs or to build up your own out of dot matrix LEDs.  I attached a photo of a clock module as an example.  The picture isn't the best quality but it gives you the idea (the display looks great with a gray filter in front of it).

Regards,

Tim Gilbert
JEM Innovation Inc.
303-926-9053 (office)
303-437-4342 (cell)
720-890-8582 (fax)
www.jeminnovation.com
www.pdksolutions.com


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Buchstaller 
  To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 4:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Character display viewable at 10feet


  Chris,

  does it really need to be a LED display ?
  Noritake makes a line of VFD displays, that
  need all your requirements, bit maybe more
  expensive...

  >- Alphanumeric display

  Yes.

  >- low power ideally rated 1A or below

  Close to that; i measured just below 1 A at 5V.

  >- large enough to be easily read from 10feet

  With character sizes up to 30 mm, no problem.

  >- Practical to interface to an AVR

  Those are very similar to LCD modules in the
  way they are connected to the MCU.

  >- rugged design for land vehicle installation

  I have seen VFD´s as main instrument panels in
  some recent european vehicles, namely made by
  Renault, and also on some older (end-80´s) Audis.

  HTH
  -Michael

  Manufaturer´s homepage:
  http://www.noritake-itron.jp/english/e_top.htm
  (i have used the Gu800 Series module named
  "GU256X32-800A")


   

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]