Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Nixie Clock - Direct Drive HV5530

2022-08-14 Thread gregebert
One other thing to addIt's good practice to loop-back the end of the serial chain to your controller so you can run diagnostics on the serial chain. On my projects, I run the clock and data signals back to the Raspberry Pi or FPGA so I can verify the integrity of the chain. If the clock

RE: [neonixie-l] Re: Nixie Clock - Direct Drive HV5530

2022-08-14 Thread Michail Wilson
Good that you mentioned ShiftOut. On that note… I use an ESP-8266 for most of my projects (specifically the WeMos Mini D1). Limited in PINs, but I want to control many steppers, so I use the mentioned ShiftOut. Basically, using 595s (4 of them), I control 8 stepper motors. A 595 having 8

Re: [neonixie-l] Soviet DMM Front Panel Labelling

2022-08-14 Thread Nick Andrews
Yeah, shipping is worse than ever. On Sat, Aug 13, 2022, 2:34 PM Mac Doktor wrote: > Another ex-Soviet Nixie DMM: > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/125460995198 > > > Take a look at the last picture. The prefix is a capitol letter pi ("П") > and the rotary switch is set to "R" (Roman alphabet) with