Vintage digital display teardown
Added 2023-10-13 04:46:23 +0000 UTCIt may seem sacrilege to take a vintage display like this apart, but if I take mine apart it means you don't have to take yours apart.
It did go back together again afterwards. In a way it could be fun to make an LED retrofit panel for the back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_TkJ5q7UTg
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I dare say a bank of say eight of these could not be multiplexed, so would require an incredible amount of wiring - and driving - and as you say, power.I wonder if there was a momentary doubling of inputs, to allow for one bulb dimming as the next one warmed up.
Ymir the Frost Giant
2023-10-17 18:23:26 +0000 UTCThe original jumbotron video walls were a matrix of tiny RGB pixel cathode ray tubes.
Big Clive
2023-10-13 21:19:16 +0000 UTCnice bit of kit i got my self a CRT type it a CRT Soviet ILD3 Series Cathode Ray Tube it just makes a dot at the end but when you got a load and i mean a load you could do a display with them they were only used i Russia only thing is i have not power the two i got as part of the power supply is bit on the high side like 6000v LOL but i am making sum thing with sum help a high power supply so soon i hope to power them up
Mort
2023-10-13 20:17:17 +0000 UTC
