Hullo everyone.
I picked up a VFD recently. Brand name TECHTOP.
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Apparently they are an Australian company.
On closer examination I think it is a Cumar unit that has undergone a rebrand.
Anyway I have managed to get it to work.
Well at least the spindle spins up and runs and doesn't appear to be overheating.
But to do this I had to dig my way though the manual which is just a big mess and basically incomprehensible and set the values numerically through the hunt and peck interface.
But I see at the front of the manual a picture of the remote CanOpen/LCD + Keypad interface which looks heaps nicer. Does anybody know where I might locate the LCD keypad for this thing ?
I tried sending an email to TECHTOP today. Because I would like to give them more money. But they were no help and somewhat hilariously told me to go check the local stationary shop.
So I not expecting much support from that direction in the future :/
Lastly if I can't find the LCD + Keypad unit is it possible to plug this thing in to some sort of USB adapter and bring up some sort of CanOpen(er) a terminal under Linux that way ?