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Hey there folks. I recently picked up some Planar EL panels at the local Electronics surplus shop and I was wondering if you folks can help me breath life into these puppies. I got a pair of EL640.200-SK screens, an EL640.480-AF1 and a mystery Planar screen that is as wide as the EL640.200-SK but twice as tall. It has a sticker on it that says PCE116241 on it with a bar code above it. All of them are factory pulls with minor cosmetic blemishes. I want to use at least one of these panels in my new watercooled system and probubly just sell off the rest. Anyways, any help would be greatly appreciated. THANK YOU!

BTW...here are some pictures...

EL640.480-AF1 and EL640.200.SK



Mystery EL panel

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- autobot -

Nice stuff!
The 640x200-SK can be controlled by an external SED1335 board.

The 640x480-AF1, must be a nice one as it actually looks a lot smaller than the 640x200-SK, should have a nice dot pitch, but needs a controller that none of the LCD apps support.

The mystery one should be a 640x400, if you're lucky you can hook it to the VFC connector (i have a 640x400 too on the VFC, sucks), but looking at it's connector i guess it won't. Best bet would be checking all 640x400 PDF's and see if any of the board components layout match yours.
Could also be a one off demo-board.

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Hey there coors. I spoke to you a few months ago over on bit-tech about another Planar screen I got. Anyways, the larger screen is definatly not a one-off demo piece. There were easily about a dozen more sitting there on the racks along with quite a few more of the other ones I picked up. Anyways, what SED1335 controller do you recommend for the EL640.200-SK? Would that connect to a serial port, and what kind of power would I need for these to run properly? I'm sorry about all the questions, I'm such a noob with this kinda stuff. Any help would be greatly appreciated. THANKS!!!

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- autobot -

I think that EL640.200-SK would probably be your best option to use with current software. But the controller to recommend is something I don't know yet. Just connecting a SED1335 to parallel port to drive this display might end up being almost waste of time. But before I really know what to recommend I should do some testing.

Lemme guess, Wacky Willy's Surplus?
As Henri said a SED1335 board would be capable of driving the 640x200 with most established LCD apps. The board i use is from MPI, but i wouldn't advise you to get that one as i already know the result will be horrible.
Perhaps Henri's SED board would fare better, we'll have to wait till Henri has time to test (yes we gots those SK's too )

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LOL...yeppers. Good old Wacky Willy's. I love just roaming around that place. Well, I guess I shall just have to wait until Henri gets on the ball with the testing. I'm eager to hear the results! Thanks again guys.

BTW...any questimate as to when Henri is gonna have this SED board tested and completed? I'm just really anxious as I am featuring my Sun Microsystems server case mod at PDXLAN 4.05 on March 18th and I really want this display inside the case. Might drum up some interest amongst other people at the LAN about the SED board and LCDInfo. Just a thought.

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- autobot -

How much did you end up paying for this "lot" of Planar's? Does this place have a website?

Well, believe it or not I picked up the screens for only $3.00 each. Planar's corporate office is only about 10 miles from where I live and Wacky Willys got these screens from them because Planar was clearing out a lot of old screens from their warehouse. As for where I got the screens, well they do have a website but its not really much. www.wackywillys.com

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- autobot -

$3 bucks each....
Let me know if you ever venture down that way again. Maybe I could talk you into grabbing a couple for me as well...
PM me if that's a possibility.

jgueydan@earthlink.net

Thanks

That is so UNFAIR

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Coorz....come on now, you know I wouldn't leave you out
Maybe, if Autobot is willing, I could get the LCD's to me, and then send some over to you and Henri as well

Well Autobot....what do ya' say?

Well, I can make a trip over Friday and see what they have left. Last time I went there the screens had been purdy picked through and mostly the only ones left had dead pixels and scratches on the glass. Kinda funny, one of the ones I got actually had a sticker on it that said "DO NOT REJECT" written in bold lettering. Oopsy, I guess this one slipped though someones fingers.

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My friend

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Oh my... I am so jealous...

Autobot.. buddy... pal.. old friend. If you are getting more of these... Please concider your friend in Australia too. Oh hi by the way, I'm Syridian.

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Syridian,
http://syridian.com

Autobot, no need to grab all Planars in sight, not all are interesting. If you need any guidance we're here to help ya out.

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