How to make iMON VFD external?

It's exact one year now since my PC died with the iMON in it. It was silent night 2007 when my PC went silent.

I just couldn't bother to fix it this time (because its power supply has been replaced already). So, I bought the Acer Aspire L3600 as my belated X’mas present.

It came of course with Vista and with MCE. A remote control was included.

As much I as I hate Vista I hate my remote control. There are simply not enough buttons. You always have to navigate through the menu in order to get to a certain feature.

Then I bought a new remote control.

Lucky, it worked with my existing tranciver. So, I didn't need change much in software.

But, there is a problem that the remote control for some reason doesn't respond reliably.

I always have to remember the good old days with iMON. One day, I just can't stand any more. So, I removed my iMON from the PC corpse.

Unfortunately, it wasn't as simple as I thought. Just to connect the USB cable, that doesn't work.

After some researches and experiments, I found that I can branch the USB power by bridging the USB 5V (VCC) to PWR & CHECK.

Warning: DO NOT try this at home!




Finally, I need a place to house my iMON.

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