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Title: OK, What did I get??? Post by: Neonkiss on March 02, 2010, 09:13:50 PM I picked up a few progressive displays. They are in a nice chrome steel frame to be mounted into a slot machine.
The only connection is a 20 pin (10 X 2) connector on a ribbon cable. Anyone know anything about these displays? Manufacturer? What do I need for a driver/power supply? Since it only has the ribbon cable data and power must be all together, Anyone have a pin-out? It's also internally illuminated with two small cold cathode tubes behind the sign that reads PROGRESSIVE. Title: Re: OK, What did I get??? Post by: stayouttadabunker on March 02, 2010, 09:29:09 PM Neon,
I hooked one of those up last year with a CHAM44 I believe... Or the mini-photon display driver board...either one worked as long as it had the 20-pin header. Those particular headers also contain the power lines via the ribbon cable to power up the display as well as the data signals. They're pretty simply to set up and do not need the extra power wires from a larger Mikohn power supply. Johntoomanynumbers has the mini-photon driver boards and the proper ribbon cables on his website. I wanted to start a post about them but my two mini-fluorescent tubes were burned out and I couldn't find replacements anywhere... Do you have any numbers on your tubes? Title: Re: OK, What did I get??? Post by: jay on March 02, 2010, 09:31:17 PM I think those are driven by a LED5 (Cham1) not (LED4) Cham44.
The LED4 does not provide power through the ribbon cable while the LED5 does. The LED4's are generally for the larger overhead displays. Title: Re: OK, What did I get??? Post by: ROCKET on March 02, 2010, 09:32:54 PM Neon, I hooked one of those up last year with a CHAM44 I believe... Or the mini-photon display driver board...either one worked as long as it had the 20-pin header. Those particular headers also contain the power lines via the ribbon cable to power up the display as well as the data signals. They're pretty simply to set up and do not need the extra power wires from a larger Mikohn power supply. Johntoomanynumbers has the mini-photon driver boards and the proper ribbon cables on his website. I wanted to start a post about them but my two mini-fluorescent tubes were burned out and I couldn't find replacements anywhere... Do you have any numbers on your tubes? GOING BY MEMORY THOSE ARE SOLDERED IN PLACE ?? OF COURSE MINE COULD BE .. THE LAST TIME I LOKED 6 YRS AGO . THEY ARE BRIGHT !!! Title: Re: OK, What did I get??? Post by: ROCKET on March 02, 2010, 09:34:02 PM THE LIGHTS ARE FED BY SEPERATE WIRE 12 VOLTS DC IF MEMORY IS GOOD
Title: Re: OK, What did I get??? Post by: stayouttadabunker on March 02, 2010, 10:09:48 PM The only hook up I recall was the 20-pin ribbon cable and
I did have it running with a LED5 (CHAM1) like Jay said. I wasn't sure about the mini-photon though but I'm betting that Jay is correct in that the mini-photon doesn't carry enough juice for the mini-fluorescent tubes. The mini-fluorescent tubes are soldered to the board while there's a tiny fluorescent driver unit as well, soldered into the end of the board right next to the tubes. Title: Re: OK, What did I get??? Post by: Neonkiss on March 02, 2010, 10:12:59 PM OK, Yes the bulbs are soldered in. I do-not see any numbers on them.
I removed the entire assembly from the frame to see it has any part numbers or manufacture info. It does have a bar-code tag that reads 341-010-95 14c, micro,W/Lamp 00105244 (1) The circuit board had a stamp of an oval circle with ET in the center No other connection for addition power to supply the lamps or anything else. I added a few pictures of the insides. Title: Re: OK, What did I get??? Post by: stayouttadabunker on March 03, 2010, 12:45:55 AM The display panel is 14 cells long.
It was always a strange one with the LEDs being 7 high x 5 wide. :103- It's somewhat more normal to have the display LEDs configuired as 8x8's. PGIC wanted to make LEDs like this for some reason to be implemented into the CHAM3 driver boards but they filed for bankruptcy court before it was put out. :8- |