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Old 04-24-2009, 10:36 AM   #3 (permalink)
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That's too bad, VFD's look so cool.

It looks like 16x2 VFD's can use up near 150mA, as opposed to the regular LCD's, which use about 4mA...so yea, power definitely becomes an issue. Even with all the pixels off, the VFD I was looking at uses about 10mA, which is 2.5x that of an LCD that's on.
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