s7 to drive 3 digit 7-segment display

[gareth_mint]

Can anyone come up with a cheap solution
i want to drive a large 3 digit 7-segment display from a s7.
i know this would be straight forward, but i havent got any outputs left and dont want to buy another output card.
If there a cheap way to convert the profibus to a BCD output?

thanks for reading

Gareth

 

[PeterW]

putting this --> "profibus 7 segment display" into google comes up with several display options.

 

[gareth_mint]

honestly i wasnt being lazy i did do that, i was just looking for different options

thanks for the reply

 

[cjd1965]

Hi I used a red lion PAX unit on a previous job.. was good. Profibus connection

 

[andreidragosh]

maybe you need a profibus-dp card to drive the display, you have to build .gsd file for it (with the parameters you need)and install the display in the network configuration as slave.