So, I have TWO Fluke 9100(s) with cracked/broken displays... and a third one I can barely read.
Hoping maybe someone has any spare 9100 chassis parts?
I will post more details tonight when i am home, its not the same as either of those.
This display is actually a 132x26 VFD , the Driver Chips are on the interface board directly, enough of the display is still intact to maybe allow removal to look for actual part number..
The Display Area is 165mm x 19mm , however, There is room to put an LCD up to 222mm x 70mm
The data signallying to the 8518 drivers chips are arranged in 4 Horizontal Drivers , and 4 Vertical Drivers daisy chained ( the 4 Horizontals are independent with separate Clock/Latch/Data )
SD1 -> DI to 8518"a" and DI to 8518"b" , But two different /latch
SD2 -> DI to 8518"c" and DI to 8518"c" , But two different /latch
All 4 Horizontals driven by same clock.
GDI -> DI to 8518"e" DO -> DI 8518 "f" DO -> DI 8518 "g" DO -> DI 8518 "h" , Driven by 1 clock and latch.
So, shouldn't be to trival to build something that takes those signals and then presents the output on an LCD Panel ( I have ordered some larger HDMI LCD displays that will fit into the panel area, and maybe look at modifying something like the RGB2HDMI or some other adapter ( like they did for the roland keyboard ) , i think the dot clock is < 3mhz
The Actual System is what is called a Fluke 9100 Trouble Shooter System
FYI, Here is the displays in question, I don't think he ever found replacements himself.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/looking-for-a-lcd-panel-to-use-to-replace-vfd/msg1398170/#msg1398170
I did find some replacement Noritake VFDs. Identical dot pitch width and height. Identical physical display width. But 32 lines vs 24. No issue, just render the inner 24 lines. They're $300 a unit with a large MOQ but I got a bunch for cheap. Eventually I plan to make a product out of them but it needs a complete new microcontroller implementation. I'm not going to try and piggyback onto the existing drivers.
i will not being using the existing drivers either, i will be remove them all and using just the Clock and Data Lines from the Z8 CPU.
ohhhhhh ok wrong 9100 loll
9500B calibrator (based on the same chassis) seems to be still in production. So you might be able to get a brand new replacement from Fluke...
ohhhhhh ok wrong 9100 loll
Yeah, not at all confusing....
So the FLUKE 9100 is a multi function calibrator, the 9100A is microprocessor test system and the 9100S i dry-well "oven".
Did they run out of modelnumbers or what :-)
i think its just a fluke that fluke likes to use random numbers