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SiriusHardware · 21st Oct 2019, 6:24 pm

I have a number of Cybernet-based (complete and working) sets in my collection, most with red channel displays, some with green.

Since you've highlighted the apparent difficulty of obtaining exact replacements for these radios - like you, I would have assumed they were absolutely bog standard - I asked the seller of the item to add more information about them to the listing, which he has, as follows:

Code:

Red

Common Anode 

27mm long, 20mm wide, 10mm thick, Pin Length = 5mm 

segment size = 8mm * 

Pitch between pins = 3mm

* I originally asked him to state the character height, but he seems to have measured the height of a single segment instead.

I haven't taken one of my own radios apart yet but I've ordered a couple of these displays and will post details of the pinout when I get them, and will also check them against the physical and electrical pinout for the display in a typical Cybernet to see if they actually will be suitable as drop in replacements.

He doesn't have them in green, unfortunately.

21st Oct 2019, 6:24 pm	#19
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,575	Re: CB spares I have a number of Cybernet-based (complete and working) sets in my collection, most with red channel displays, some with green. Since you've highlighted the apparent difficulty of obtaining exact replacements for these radios - like you, I would have assumed they were absolutely bog standard - I asked the seller of the item to add more information about them to the listing, which he has, as follows: Code: Red Common Anode 27mm long, 20mm wide, 10mm thick, Pin Length = 5mm segment size = 8mm * Pitch between pins = 3mm * I originally asked him to state the character height, but he seems to have measured the height of a single segment instead. I haven't taken one of my own radios apart yet but I've ordered a couple of these displays and will post details of the pinout when I get them, and will also check them against the physical and electrical pinout for the display in a typical Cybernet to see if they actually will be suitable as drop in replacements. He doesn't have them in green, unfortunately.