Vibration would be my first concern too, even if you mount them in foam
rubber or something. Not to mention visibility in broad daylight, which
could be a bummer too.
But to show off your steam punk bike at some gathering, well that would
be nice ;-)
The driver that @M1 mentions is certainly a nice way to treat the tubes -
it avoids the inrush surge when a segment is first switched on. For some
projects I use a little board that comprises the tube and a small processor
(an AT89C2051); with that setup, I PWM the segments that are off to
Maybe take the numitron idea even further and use minitrons? You can find them
pretty easily in old avionics equipment, and they’d probably last longer in
that type of environment anyway.
> On Apr 2, 2022, at 2:02 PM, Michail Wilson wrote:
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I agree with, well, almost everything.
I build several items using Numitrons (specifically) IV-9 (of which I have a
hoard of them), but I don’t use 595’s to drive them, but I don’t remember
specifically why I chose a diff driver. Well, you’re supposed to use them.
Instead, I use TCL5916
I agree fairly strongly with Pramancin - I think Numitrons would be the way
to go. They are exceedingly rugged (originally used in fighter planes,
among many other applications), long-lived (10,000+ hours at maximum
brightness, converging to infinity at reduced drive voltages), and are very
Thanks for the suggestions. I have an in tank speedo that I was going to
recreate the case, and add some extra supports, with tpu from my 3d
printer. That, combined with a minimally vibrating bike (Yamaha
stratoliner), do you think I'll still have issues?
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022, 3:56 PM Nicholas
You could use numitrons instead, they're a lot more vibration resistant,
but not the same charm as a nixie ..
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 12:51 PM Bill van Dijk
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> As a long time biker and Nixie guy, I would like to give you some advice.
> The severe vibrations of a
Hi Codi
As a long time biker and Nixie guy, I would like to give you some advice. The
severe vibrations of a motorcycle WILL destroy any nixie in very short order.
As great as the project sounds now, you will be disappointed with that.
Sorry,
Bill v
From:
I built a Nixie tube instrument cluster with speedometer etc. for my
Corvair last summer. I used many 74HC595 shift registers to send all the
tube cathode data out via SPI. Then I used TBD62083 octal high voltage
driver arrays to run the tubes.
I'll send you the design files if you're interested.
