The Noritake display looks great. I am hoping that a kit of this proposed Thunderbolt monitor with the Noritake display will be made available through TARP in the near future. I am sure that many of the Thunderbolts which recently became available would benefit from such a kit. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Didier Juges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Time-Nuts" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:47 AM Subject: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt monitor
>I made a second version (same firmware) of the Thunderbolt monitor. This >one > uses the plastic DIP version of the processor mounted on a small Radio > Shack > proto board and it uses a gorgeous Noritake Vacuum Fluorescent display. > > The interface between the Noritake and any ordinary LCD display is the > same > ( as far as pin-out is concerned), except that the Noritake does not have > a > contrast adjustment. Otherwise, the firmware is the same, once the > differences are accounted for. The Noritake is generally much faster than > most 2 line LCDs when updating the data, but requires a little more time > to > initialize themselves at power up. My software can drive either display > without modification. > > The Noritake displays have a software command to adjust the brightness > down > to half, and that's it. My firmware does not take advantage of that > feature, > which I find relatively useless, but may prolong the life of the display. > The VFDs only have a few years of life under continuous operation, so > dimming the display or turning it off altogether when not needed might be > a > good idea. > > See pictures at http://www.ko4bb.com/Timing/GPSMonitor/ > > Didier KO4BB > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.