Mine arrived today in mint condition; still had the protective plastic on 
it. Very easy to use:

1. Plugged into my Win10 PC's USB port, and it powered-up and sent some 
info, including a blurb mentioning 9600 baud, 8 bits, 1 stop bit.
2. Open up your setting to see the device. Mine showed up as COM6
3. Open up a windows command prompt, set the communication mode:
MODE COM6:BAUD=9600 PARITY=N DATA=8 STOP=1
4. Send it some text:  echo Nixie tubes kick ass > COM6

The label on the back says 5V / 500mA, which is much lower than I expected.

On Monday, December 15, 2025 at 12:24:09 PM UTC-8 gregebert wrote:

> 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]
>>>
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