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] >>> >>> -- >>> 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/6b92aee1-4fb4-451b-b33f-baf54398c02dn%40googlegroups.com.
