That link worked out, thanks.
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From: "Philip Pemberton" <classiccmp at philpem.me.uk>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: 486 case LED display jumpers
Teo Zenios wrote:
Anybody happen to have the jumper diagram to set
a LED 2 digit case speed
setting? The PCB has ST-8A on it if that helps.
There's a reverse-engineered partial circuit on VOGONS:
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=10780&sid=f80bc89c785100a9d…
If you could put a photo of the PCB on one of those photo-sharing sites
(say, Photobucket?) and post the URL, I might have the paperwork kicking
around in one of my folders. "TH99" (Total Hardware, 1999 edition) might
also be worth a look, copies of that are kicking around on Google.
Usually the jumpers are laid out in a tesselated "T" pattern, a bit like
this:
1 2 3
4
Valid jumper positions are 1-2, 2-3, 2-4 or no jumper. If memory serves,
1-2 is "on with TURBO on", 2-3 is "on with TURBO off", 2-4 is
"on all the
time", no jumper is, well, segment not lit. Which segment is tied to which
jumper cluster depends on the specific display in use.
Of course, you get boards designed by folks who thought they were being
clever, which end up with a layout like:
1 a 3
b 4 c
1 d 3
(or something like that, I've probably got it at least a little wrong)
Letters = segments; 1,3,4 = supplies.
You could probably reverse-engineer one with a multimeter in about 25
minutes. Remove all the jumpers, Set TURBO off, find all the lines that
are high, repeat with TURBO on. From that you'll be able to figure out
which pins are always-high, and which depend on the state of the TURBO
input. Anything that stays low is a segment. If dealing with a
common-anode display, reverse "high" and "low".
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