[neonixie-l] halfway OT: dot-matrix VFD from Sony Minidisc

2012-04-10 Thread Tomislav Kordaso
Got broken Sony Minidisc player with damage to pickup mechanism,
beyond repair. There is nice VFD inside with 12 5*7 elements, looks
too good to be thrown away. It is labeled with 1-517-575-11, made by
Futaba. Driver IC is OKI MSM9202-02.
I'd like to use this set in a project, however, no idea how to format
and send data to driver IC. Anyone expirienced with this driver to
point me where to start from?
Tomislav

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[neonixie-l] looking for Weston: Cold cathode glow discharge tubes

2012-04-10 Thread Dalibor Farný
Hello guys,

I am looking for the book from G.F. Weston, Cold cathode glow discharge
tubes, 1968, but it is (surprisingly) sold out everywhere ;-)

is there someone so kind to provide me a PDF or some other ebook?

Thank You!

Dalibor

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Re: [neonixie-l] looking for Weston: Cold cathode glow discharge tubes

2012-04-10 Thread Dieter Waechter

Hi!
I have the original book and a DVD with a scan of the book.
Contact me outside: i...@nocrotec.com
Please note that the original book is not cheap.
Dieter

Am 10.04.2012 14:46, schrieb Dalibor Farnı:

Hello guys,

I am looking for the book from G.F. Weston,Cold cathode glow discharge
tubes, 1968, but it is (surprisingly) sold out everywhere ;-)

is there someone so kind to provide me a PDF or some other ebook?

Thank You!

Dalibor


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Re: [neonixie-l] halfway OT: dot-matrix VFD from Sony Minidisc

2012-04-10 Thread John Rehwinkel
 Got broken Sony Minidisc player with damage to pickup mechanism,
 beyond repair. There is nice VFD inside with 12 5*7 elements, looks
 too good to be thrown away. It is labeled with 1-517-575-11, made by
 Futaba. Driver IC is OKI MSM9202-02.
 I'd like to use this set in a project, however, no idea how to format
 and send data to driver IC. Anyone expirienced with this driver to
 point me where to start from?

I've worked with similar chips (MSM5267B-15 and MSM5839B, from VFD
displays in elevators).  They have fairly simple serial interfaces, and support
a bunch of VFD drivers and generally a small keypad.

A trivial web search yields the data sheet for your part (almost, it's a -01 
instead
of a -02, but I doubt that's terribly significant) at alldatasheet.com:

http://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/11416/OKI/MSM9202-01.html

The folks at alldatasheet prohibit deep linking to their data, so that link
gives the entertaining message:

Your require pages is cannot open by blow
Reason: Connect this pages through directly deep link

And a button reading If You Want to View Datasheet, Click To Here !!.

And you could chase your tail back through their structure, only to arrive at a
tiny embedded viewer for the PDF that won't let you save it.  So I did the 
legwork
for you, extracted the PDF, and uploaded it to my server for you:

http://www.vitriol.com/pdf/MSM9202.pdf

- John

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