Re: [neonixie-l] OT: How to convert composite video into TTL?

2021-04-12 Thread Charles MacDonald
On 2021-04-12 8:59 a.m., Adrian Godwin wrote: To complete the trio : SECAM is Something Essentialy Contrary to the American Method, and PAL is Perfection At Last. I recall hearing it as "Pay (for) Additional Luxury". the early sets would have needed extra circuitry to decode the alternating

Re: [neonixie-l] What's the best method for pin cleaning?

2021-04-12 Thread Nicholas Stock
Martin, i'd use some emory board (nail files) to lightly sand the rust off of them.done that with a few tubes myself with no issues. Cheers, Nick Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 12, 2021, at 19:47, martin martin wrote: > > Hi all, > > I had a few Burroughs B5092s sitting around and

RE: [neonixie-l] Re: Sourcing Panaplex Displays (SP-252)

2021-04-12 Thread Michail Wilson
Hello B Gladden, First, congrats on joining. The 252 and 352 are basically the same except that the 352 has 2 keep-alive indicators which are not needed. That is why they have the 2 extra pins that the manual and Bill mentions. You ‘could’ even use a 752 if a must, although the resistors

[neonixie-l] Re: Sourcing Panaplex Displays (SP-252)

2021-04-12 Thread Bill Stanley
It may depend on the Heathkit clock you have. I have the original GC-1005 that uses the SP-352 tubes just fine. I do note that the 353 displays have more pins than sockets (pin bent out of the way) so perhaps the 352 is a superset of the 252. In the manual on page 20 it indicates that your

[neonixie-l] Sourcing Panaplex Displays (SP-252)

2021-04-12 Thread B Gladden
Hello all just found and signed up for the board! Really interested in what you folks do here. Just found a neat Heathkit kit clock at a yard sale and I'm hoping to revive the little guy. I assume the thing needs these 45 year old capacitors replaced at some point, but my real issue is with

Re: [neonixie-l] OT: How to convert composite video into TTL?

2021-04-12 Thread Adrian Godwin
On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 1:34 PM Robert G. Schaffrath < robert.schaffr...@gmail.com> wrote: > locking on). NTSC (Never Twice the Same Color) was a bit of an issue with > needing Color and Hue controls that adjusted the TV's > To complete the trio : SECAM is Something Essential Contrary to the

Re: [neonixie-l] OT: How to convert composite video into TTL?

2021-04-12 Thread Robert G. Schaffrath
Yes the work done to get color into the 3.58MHz (well something like 3.579545MHz) was incredible. The math involved in transmitting the RGB info is truly amazing. And it was all decoded through analog circuitry! No digital processing involved. Quite a feat for its day. In fact, NTSC TV's were