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Graham · April 24th, 2002, 09:46 PM

Beemer,
Some old cookers and other appliances had 7 segment LED displays, check your local dump.

You could use a cheap alarm clock/desk clock with an LCD display, they usually have a backlight that you could wire permenantly on, or replace them with nice blue LEDs, cutting the voltage down is no problem at all.

Something like this is available from electronics suppliers,

http://www.rswww.com/cgi-bin/bv/brow...prodoid=266662

or

http://www.rswww.com/cgi-bin/bv/brow...prodoid=269735

Sorry for the enormous links.

G

April 24th, 2002, 09:46 PM	#7 (permalink)
Graham Ultimate Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Ipswich Suffolk UK Posts: 1,110	Beemer, Some old cookers and other appliances had 7 segment LED displays, check your local dump. You could use a cheap alarm clock/desk clock with an LCD display, they usually have a backlight that you could wire permenantly on, or replace them with nice blue LEDs, cutting the voltage down is no problem at all. Something like this is available from electronics suppliers, http://www.rswww.com/cgi-bin/bv/brow...prodoid=266662 or http://www.rswww.com/cgi-bin/bv/brow...prodoid=269735 Sorry for the enormous links. G __________________ Nothing moves faster than goalposts.