Xpantastic!

Hi,
 
If absolutely necessary, I think a new display board could be created for M12/Xpander that would decode the grid/anode signals to the original VFD's and create the new signals to drive newer displays like the ones on ebay the other day.  This could be a simple lookup table and state machine in an FPGA for example (I'm an FPGA designer).  It would give an opportunity for a slightly different display as well (e.g. VFD dot matrix, 15 segment LED)
 
Does anyone know the failure rate of the VFD's (like ever?)  Are they one of the first things to go?
 
Randy

--- On Mon, 8/4/08, envia94 <akva@...> wrote:

From: envia94 <akva@...>
Subject: [xpantastic] Re: Noritake displays on ebay
To: xpantastic@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, August 4, 2008, 12:23 AM






Hi,

There are not any direct replacements for the original displays. Noritake tells that in their 
newer components there are buit-in electronics, which is missing from the original Xpander 
displays.