Xpantastic!

Hi PeWe,
 
I saw an alphanumeric on the Futaba site 40-SY-02G
http://www.futaba.com/products/displays/full/54-full.pdf
 
Looks to me like the alpha numeric could possibly be made to work, except
 
1. there's no underline segment
2. the leads are not in exactly the same physical locations as the old one, however this would not be a very difficult adaptation...
 
However the fact that it even exists gives me some hope that a workable replacement may be possible without customization?
 
Randy

--- On Wed, 8/6/08, PeWe <ha-pewe@...> wrote:

From: PeWe <ha-pewe@...>
Subject: Re: [xpantastic] VFD help
To: xpantastic@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 7:33 PM






I just looked in my service manual, the display infos appear in the "theory of operation" (page 12), "test and calibration" (pages 33/34) and "schematic diagrams"(pages 49/50),- but no dimensions unfortunally.

I have a full PDF of the Futaba M40SD04GR VFD, 40 characters in a row but 5x7 dot matrix, dimensions included.
You find it here:
http://www.futaba. com/products/ displays/ standard_ search/search. asp

The question is: Would this VFD translate well w/ an Xpander ?



Tony Cappellini schrieb: 


I have a spare display (not I'm not selling it), I could probably
take the dimensions.
Didn't someone post a data sheet for the actual VFDs recently?

Isn't this info in the service manual?