VCR display turned amplifier

Music Technology
VCR display turned amplifier

Vfd Amp
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5Volt turned an old VCR’s vacuum fluorescent display into a headphone amp –

VFDs are common on VCRs. I have a few of them I took from some broken VCRs. Last night I was working on how I could use them as vacuum triodes. I don’t have much experience with real vacuum tubes so I had to invent some, possibly wrong, arrangements, but I finally got something.

Schematic and further details available – A Vacuum Fluorescent Display as a headphone amplifier

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