Hello… I recently bought this part number 160-1922-5-ND. Looking to have mounted on a control panel. As is I would not be able to mount it without a mounting frame of some sort. Did I buy the wrong item or do I have a mounting frame option? Thx.
Hello Ramzi,
Thank you for posting on our forum and happy new year!
those LED displays are designed to have a custom frame.
These types of displays are normally soldered onto a printed circuit board and that circuit board would have 2 or 4 holes mounted into it for mounting.
That circuit board would be a custom design.
Happy New Year! Thank you for the guidance. It sounds like I made a mistake choosing the item. I am not soldering to a circuit board; I am connecting to an electronic board using 0.1" socket plugs. From my digital board I need to connect a digital display to a custom control panel. I now also see that the instruction that came with my board are misleading and not very clear for a beginner like me. Thank you so much.
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The ten pin male 0.1inch pitch header on your ACM board is intended to have female jumpers plugged into it, per the instructions with the ACM board.
Those would then normally get plugged into a custom designed circuit board that the display is soldered to, that has holes in it for mounting.
Given the custom enclosure/mounting you need for the display, the cost of enclosures, seven segment displays, difficult wiring, encoders, you may want to consider the control box.
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Morning… Thank you, Kristof. Love it. Thank you thank you. This is my absolute first project, and I know I am biting more than I can chew. The instructions for the ACM are written for someone who knows what they are doing or at least has done it before.
I already have the control box installed and working perfectly. In fact, I have 2 of them that daisy chain into one another on the train layout (pictures attached). I have also attached a picture of the project that I have built so far. I got this far by trial and error, 2 years in and It is working perfectly.
The white control panel (in the pictures) is what I am working on updating/upgrading with momentary pushbuttons for track turnout controls and incorporating “custom” controls for the turntable replacing the second control box. One control box is highly recommended (which I am keeping) and the ACM would daisy chain from that giving me the ability to put the controls on the control board matching the train layout operations.
Thanking you in advance for your time, guidance and help.
Hi ramzi,
If you do plan to make a custom display, then the following may be of use to you.
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Socket to hold 160-1922-5-ND dual seven-segment display (note: one must use 14-pin socket, as 10-pin not available)
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Prototype Solderable board to hold socket and mount to panel
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Solderable Headers to allow attachment of jumper wires to proto board
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Female-to female jumpers to connect 7-segment display pins to “Display” header
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Board Spacers to attach proto board to front panel and provide spacing
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I missed that that seven segment display was on a 0.1inch grid. Forget what I said about custom circuit board, that will fit on any standard protoboard. You don’t necessarily need a socket for the display, it’ll solder directly to a perf board, like like the one @David_1528 recommended.
That is very helpful. Thank you for bringing those Items to my attention. This is going to help a lot.
The number display is going to be on a control panel. Is there a mounting frame for the Display 7SEG 0.28" (Part 160-1922-5-ND). I am looking for something that would possibly look like this. It would be mounted in a cavity in a masonite board.
Thx.
What they call your mount would be considered a Display Bezel.
We do not have anything like that designed specifically for a 2 digit 7 segment display.
The image you provided looks like a 3-D printed custom bezel. That would be an optimal way to make something for that display, if you own or know someone who has such a printer. A 3-D printer would also be a very handy tool for all sorts of model train projects.
DigiKey carries several models of 3D printers ranging from quite affordable to professional/industrial level units.
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Thank you Dave… Perfect idea… that’s what I am going to do.
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