Here is also the vfd which I really wanted to work, but figure that the controller chip is faulty, although physical testing shows the following.
That makes this the third thread for this topic going back nearly 7 months.
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,134470.html
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,106553.html
“There’s never enough time to do it right, but there is always enough time to do it again”
Don