Logic Systems VFD pole display

[pearlmax]

Hi, I'm new to the forums. It's good to see there's a relatively active community here.

Yesterday I picked up a new in box LD9000U POS pole display at an electronics thrift store. It came with driver/manual install disc, so I had myself a couple of beers and installed it on my XP machine, read some docmentation, and ran a few successful tests in the command prompt as outlined in the user manual. I then downloaded the June beta from last year, and was able to get it to work (to an extent) with the Seetron plugin. However, not working correctly, even at the correct 2x20 setting. I assume the Seetron driver isn't actually meant for my display. TBH, I haven't been able to find out what display it uses. If need be, I can open it up to find out. Here's a video of the current behavior with the Seetron driver. I forgot to demonstrate at 1x40, but it pretty much behaves the same.

youtube(DOT)com/watch?v=HjhaBEf1ipg

Hopefully I can get this display working correctly, and have it match the output on the emulated LCD in Windows. It just doesn't seem to be fully supported at the moment, but I hope I'm wrong. There was a section in the user manual regarding updating/selecting different command sets. I just left it at the default, so maybe that is part of the problem. Anyway, I've uploaded the contents of the install disc for anyone who might want to take a look. The server I use doesn't allow files larger than roughly 5MB, so the rar archive is split into 5 parts. I also uploaded the user manual separately. Files can be found here:

pearlmax(DOT)host-ed(DOT)me/LDX_PDX_CD/

Forum wouldn't allow me to post the actual links. Hopefully a moderator can edit the post.

Thanks for any help.

[hydrolisk1792]

Greetings,

Your display most likely uses a set of HEX commands that tell the display what to do from the host. I have multiple customer displays (because I like them more that LCDs) and they all use a set of HEX commands. There are probably a set of commands that tells the display when to turn on, clear the display, and display text in a said location. . . I was having the same problems as you when I first got all mine, and the user dperrow on these forums helped me out in developing a display dll specifically for my wd-202 and NCR 5972 displays. For the time being, try using the test driver that is supplied with smarte and see where you can get with that. There is a whole section here on the forums that tells about the test driver, can't remember where it is at the moment lol, but it is here someplace. Hope this helps.

[pearlmax]

Thanks for the reply. That is exactly how it works according to the user manual. There are several pages covering command sets. Good to know there's hope creating a custom driver. I will probably contact dperrow and see if he can point me in the right direction. I haven't gotten anywhere with the test driver unfortunately. I set the COM port and baud rate but get an error on start up

[dperrow]

pearlmax,
I was going to have a look at the docs but the address you gave comes up 'Account Suspended'. Can you make them available somewhere else or am I doing something wrong?

[hydrolisk1792]

Thanks for the reply. That is exactly how it works according to the user manual. There are several pages covering command sets. Good to know there's hope creating a custom driver. I will probably contact dperrow and see if he can point me in the right direction. I haven't gotten anywhere with the test driver unfortunately. I set the COM port and baud rate but get an error on start up

An error? What does the error say? Is it when you try to start the "Testdriver"? Check to see if the com port even exists on your machine "Right click on my computer, properties, device manager, then look under ports (COM/LPT)" dperrow is a pretty cool guy, he helpped me out by making me some custom drivers for my customer displays and such. He seems to know what to do when it comes to making these drivers for customer displays, lol, so he is the one to talk to about the making of the driver for your display. One really important thing is to either supply the datasheet on your display, or point us in the right direction of where it is located on the net.