Well, I was trying to get back into doing car-puters. I bought a VFD2041 to use in my heads up display, but it's not bright enough to see when it's sunny out.
Is there any way I can physically modify it to crank the voltage? The original VFD was about 3 times brighter.
Make my VFD2041 brighter?
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You can't make them brighter by cranking the voltage if anything that will damage the logic board. The VFD is equipped with a set brightness command which you can use to set the brightness of the unit, see the manual for the exact command.
Well yeah. I figured it would fry the regulator or something like that. It's already on maximum brightness.Ray wrote:You can't make them brighter by cranking the voltage if anything that will damage the logic board. The VFD is equipped with a set brightness command which you can use to set the brightness of the unit, see the manual for the exact command.
But isn't there a limiting resistor or crystal that can be unsoldered/replaced to force a faster refresh rate? Maybe even raise the output voltage somewhat?