Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

Did anybody ever tried to replace display with new VFD ones from Notitake or similar company .

with something like this 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4qBhpJ_1bA

im LOVE my s1100 but allergic to that display .. yes i have new backlight!!

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another thing .. my friend decided to recap s1100 so ill do that to .. he notice that he will replace output opamps with better ones... anybody did that ????

Thanx 

Damir

VFD displays pull a lot more power than one with an electro luminecsent (EL) backlight, so I would be more inclined to try a display with an LED backlight with the current limited somehow.

There is an LED display around for the Korg Wavestation which uses a similar display to the Akai I think...

EL backlights only use about 25 or 30mA current, whereas an LED display wants more like 70mA but they are really bright so it wouldn't matter if the current was lowered a bit. VFD can pull more than 300mA so in my opinion that would be a problem in the Akai. Suddenly adding an extra 300mA to the 5v circuit that is already supplying SCSI termination power and a lot of other stuff could shorten the life of an already ageing power supply.

I don't know how to reduce the current allowed to the LED display unfortunately, but people have done it in the Wavestation in place of the original EL display. Great mod because it means the display doesn't need an inverter anymore and as some people will know, most Wavestations have inverters that whine audibly.

First place to start is the data sheet for the Akai display because you can only use a display that has the same type of controller on it. Luckily most of them seem to use the Toshiba T6963 controller, and other companies have cloned some of these old displays now using LED backlights.

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "Damir" <roginator1@...> wrote:

>
> Did anybody ever tried to replace display with new VFD ones from Notitake or similar company .
> 
> with something like this 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4qBhpJ_1bA
> 
> im LOVE my s1100 but allergic to that display .. yes i have new backlight!!
> 
> ------------
> 
> another thing .. my friend decided to recap s1100 so ill do that to .. he notice that he will replace output opamps with better ones... anybody did that ????
> 
> Thanx 
> 
> Damir
>