We have now released the first two variants in the IQAN-MD5 family, the 5" and the 8" variants.

You'll need IQANdesign 7.02 to use these, which also is available.

Product information are available on parker.com.

Would be nice for MD4 displays to have day/night mode where background and text properties would change without the need of creating extra layers. 

Hardware Question:

In the Documentation for the MC4x family of controllers - it says in many places to use diodes for external coil suppression, for example when driving a relay with the Digital Out HS driver from the MC4x.

A relay that I have specific to my application requires (highly recommends) the use of varistor coil suppression, which is less "harsh" on the relay device during transients. The specification requests a clamping voltage of 3x the coil voltage, i.e. 36Vdc for a 12Vdc relay coil.

Are there any adverse affects of using a varistor instead of a diode for coil suppression? 

Perhaps this could be also compatible with the hardware design of the MC4x series of controllers?

(Hint: I already have tested this configuration on my system to many thousands of cycles under load with no discernible affect on system operation or relay operation)

This module supports alot of IO and 5 x CAN. Very simple functions to serve all of the IO and CAN easily burn the available resources and I am wondering if there are any upgrade plans ?

Has anyone been able to find out where to get a supply of the new Molex 216741-0001 (new connector)  The UK seems to have no stock at all and we are getting desperate now. 

I understand that there was a change from Molex regarding the MX series connector for the MC43. 34822-0013 changed to 216741-0001. The issue is, there is no stock in the US distribution. Are there any other connectors we might be able to use as an alternative until US inventory has stock within the distribution channels?

We are trying out an MD5 MD4-5 module for the first time and we have found an issue with display page navigation. this issue does not occur with the same code on and MD4-7. We had buttons on each page that directly linked to other pages but they seemed to not function consistently. The button would register the touch (button lights up) but the page would not change. this was very inconsistent. To try a solution, we made the buttons connect to virtual inputs and linked them to the "show page" parameter and everything worked fine. Have you seen this issue?

Hi all I hope someone can help me here,

We tried to update an MC41 via Design and it got stuck at the end of the "Rebooting" phase,

The blinking pattern on the module was : 4R – 1Y – 12Y – 3Y – 1Y – 1Y, and we could not reconnect to it.

Since the unit is rush, we shipped a new MC41 to our shop. After testing they realised some parameters weren't ok, so they went ahead and pushed Settings via Run.

Exact same thing happened : stuck with a full green bar on "rebooting" and pattern that our road guy saw (no video) was "4R - 13Y" but it might very well be the same

Is some of you have seen it before and might know how to resuscitate them ?

Thank you,

The new -M24 versions are now in serial production:

See updated catalogs:

IQAN-MC4x_brochure_HY33-8413-UK.pdf

IQAN-XC4x_brochure_MSG17-8417-UK.pdf

Requires IQANdesign version 7.03, see Version 7.03 released / Software / IQAN