Too good to pass-up at that price, so I bought one. Thanks for posting. I have a single-line VFD display that has been sitting in a junkbox for more than 10 years and have done nothing with it because it requires support circuitry. This thing is ready-to-go.
I was pondering the 8-character LED unit from another neonixie article, and decided against it because it's too small. On Monday, December 15, 2025 at 8:57:55 AM UTC-8 David Pye wrote: > They *are* cool. Pity they don't post to the UK. > > > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2025, 16:02 Tom Katt, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Not nixie, but they are glass tubes ;-) Also not vintage, but heading >> that way thanks to cheaper lcd and oled... >> >> I recently bought a few of these surplus ELO E122426 2 x 20 char >> point-of-sale (cash register) displays on eBay... They have a single USB >> interface that appears as a std serial port on the pc and provides power. >> I haven't cracked them open, but I would not be surprised to find a std ttl >> serial pinout on the board somewhere. These are really easy to use - just >> send them some serial text and away you go. I have one running on a >> Raspberry Pi and another displaying stats on my pc via some free software >> (AIDA64). Anyhoo, you can find these for under $25 shipped and they look >> quite nice, both the display itself and also the case which is a nice >> polished black. I have located the documentation and a config utility that >> allows you to set a few things (baud rate, local power on message etc). >> >> Just figured that I'd toss this out there in case anyone is interested. >> I have no affiliation with the eBay seller (and there are many anyways) - >> but this one is currently the cheapest at $22 shipped. >> >> ELO VFD Rear Facing Customer Display USB E-Series ESYxxE2x | eBay >> <https://www.ebay.com/itm/257008164958?_skw=elo+E122426&itmmeta=01KCHB6T4BB3W5ETK8TVREWRPA&hash=item3bd6e1605e:g:KPQAAeSwGfRobWkM&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1cgW5R4UkxuedjF3ReKh7oTdIyngrH7MjSjS2dcqq%2FemWsl4tjAkKz5XgfVwkjb8VGINyNj9dO3KDnBHb5zNEza%2BzoI%2BJYv9BCePeR988R6%2FSAvZZi5b6lpfHBEUjXGXyuCJYyX1%2Br7TEg4jVZcesEby9PF1BMcNq3hXOtn%2BVZ6yV050RCKa9ppzjZj8T8JK5bIYN4%2F00bcCwY2E5m1MKiZ1IF5bbsRqLO4c2l2PMoqo%2FdHDGPvNS%2Fb5zESxqasLSU%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6aim6vkZg> >> >> [image: VFD.jpg] >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "neonixie-l" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4fc68d81-8d51-4159-bfa3-a24807bd0bd1n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4fc68d81-8d51-4159-bfa3-a24807bd0bd1n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/06b75098-190d-440b-b4b8-1878fd3b65f6n%40googlegroups.com.
