Russian 100x100 array

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Mike Mitchell

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Feb 23, 2015, 8:36:45 AM2/23/15
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Has anyone done anything with the Russian IMG-1 100x100 neon array?
I've seen a few ebay postings
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It looks interesting...

Alex

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Feb 24, 2015, 5:40:53 AM2/24/15
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Those have been on ebay for a good while from the same seller, I was tempted a while ago but they are just too high a $ for my taste. The displays panels themselves are, if i recall from reading somewhere, a nightmare to drive as they use glow transfer to scan in data, so essentially gas based multiplexing. Those for 250 do look like they come with some soviet era wizardry in the box and he states are parallel 8 bit interfaces (LPT port...).

I think I actually looked around at the time and discovered they were used on soviet CNC machines - I even found a Russian companies website offering LCD replacements for them. 

- Alex

Terry Kennedy

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Feb 25, 2015, 1:46:10 AM2/25/15
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On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 5:40:53 AM UTC-5, Alex wrote:
Those have been on ebay for a good while from the same seller, I was tempted a while ago but they are just too high a $ for my taste. The displays panels themselves are, if i recall from reading somewhere, a nightmare to drive as they use glow transfer to scan in data, so essentially gas based multiplexing. Those for 250 do look like they come with some soviet era wizardry in the box and he states are parallel 8 bit interfaces (LPT port...).

I think I actually looked around at the time and discovered they were used on soviet CNC machines - I even found a Russian companies website offering LCD replacements for them. 

I have a 512x512 VFD version in my collection. It is either a prototype or a part that failed testing, since there are no printed markings on it, just a number of comments like "Dud" scratched into the glass on the back (in Cyrillic). I was unable to get it to do anything at all, unlike the submarine one I posted about earlier. I guess it is just blue-green, though it is possible it is multi-color or RGB. Here are some pictures:

Mike Mitchell

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Feb 26, 2015, 9:32:00 AM2/26/15
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Terry Kennedy

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Feb 26, 2015, 12:39:08 PM2/26/15
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On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 9:32:00 AM UTC-5, Mike Mitchell wrote:

Looks like mine has a "few" more pixels - those are 32x32 panels (the second one is a "sparse" 64x64, but only 32x32 if you consider the RGB cluster as 1 pixel. The one I have is 512x512.
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