[vdr] Re: AW: Re: AW: OT: Where to buy VFD-display in germany

[Cornelius Hald <hald@gmx.de>]

On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 00:58, Michael Kunzmann wrote:
> 
> 
> >> 
> >> I don't know if this is cheap enough, but i bought mine from 
> >> www.farnell.de. I ordered a 20x4 display: CU20045SCPB-U2J. It runs 
> >> with the standard driver HD4480 or so, and with lcdproc from around 
> >> april. I take the +5V from the PC power supply.
> >
> >Ahh, thank you. This is what I´m looking for. Price seems ok. Is it
> good? I mean big and bright enought? >Can you read it from ca. 3-4m?
> 
> The characters are about 5 mm high, so you can read it from 3m. You can
> also download the whole datasheet in advance, there are also some
> drawings with the exact dimensions of the display. And yes it is bright
> enough, almost too bright. It also has a feature to adjust the
> brightness by software commands (i think it has two or three different
> brightness levels) but these are not supported by the standard driver,
> yet and i didn't have the time and knowledge to look into it.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> The link to the datasheet: http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/6098.pdf

Thank you! I think I will buy one, sounds good!

Gruß
Conny

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