On Wed, 4 Feb 2015,
jurb...@gmail.com wrote:
> I heard the "bleeding" LCDs were a problem with some Flukes. Might be
> hasrd to get.
>
> I wonder just how hard it would be to adapt it to another display. Those
> did not have all that elaborate like a phone or a monitor. Each digit
> gots eight wires.
>
> Since you'll never find where Fluke bought them or had them made you
> would have to deal with rewiring because the pinout is unlikely to be
> the same. In that case, really you could adapt it to LED. You owuld have
> to build a little buffer board because LEDs pull alot more current. But
> then again, I find them easier to read.
>
I don't think so. The signals coming out of the DMM IC would be different
and they'd be multiplexing the signals differently.
I thought it was Fluke that used that Intersil famous DMM IC. SOmeone wsa
talking about that recently elsewhere something about Fluke (I think it
wsa) going to Intersil, and then Intersil released the IC as a new
product, or maybe a modified version.
If that's the case, Intersil released to versions of the basic DMM IC, one
to drive LEDs, the other to drive LCDs. One might look up the
datasheets (which likely are still available) to see the differences.
Michael