Elevator position indicator display system and method of driving the display

In an elevator assembly that produces locations signals, from a predetermined number of possible location signals, that are indicative of the location of an elevator car, a position indicator display system, comprising:

• a segmented display having a first number of segments and a predetermined operational power requirements;
• a display driver coupled to said segmented display, said display driver containing a plurality of output signal lines that correspond in number to said first number of segment, wherein said display driver receives a location signal and utilizes the location signal to produce a drive signal that drives said segmented display and produces an alpha-numeric character indicative of the location signal;
• at least two pathways disposed between each said output signal line and said segments of said segmented display, where each of said pathways has different resistance value;
• a switch coupled to each of said output signal lines for selectively connecting each of said output signal lines in series with a selected one of said at least two pathways, thereby enabling said drive signal to be selectively conditioned by the resistance value of a selected pathway to fall within said operational power requirements of said segmented display.