I bought three of them. All arrived quickly and all brand new with plastic cover.
I didn’t want to try to find a Win10 PC, so I did it on my Win11 Laptop after a change. I am going to work on figuring out how to run it with a controller if possible to take out the PC requirement. Love the display. Has anyone opened it? If so, how? Michail Wilson 206-920-6312 From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of gregebert Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2025 3:27 PM To: neonixie-l <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Surplus POS VFD displays 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]<mailto:[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> [https://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l/attach/7a5d2986b9927/VFD.jpg?part=0.1&view=1] -- 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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6b92aee1-4fb4-451b-b33f-baf54398c02dn%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6b92aee1-4fb4-451b-b33f-baf54398c02dn%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/SJ0PR01MB81541726DD4AEA3A670F1E6982B3A%40SJ0PR01MB8154.prod.exchangelabs.com.
