I'm runing it now. There are a few things I'll need help fixing. Like making sure it always sends 20 or 10 letters/numbers. This is to avoid having to send the Carage return and line feed command to it. When you send all 20 (or 10 depending on text size) then the vfd automaticly moves the cursor down one line and then you just have to move it to the begining with the Chr$(13). Then agine I realy could make an if statment that checks the length of the text and sends the right command.

PS: we are at 10 + min with the software and no lock up