On Jan 30, 5:08 pm, threeneurons <threeneur...@yahoo.com> wrote: > To get most of the > battery life, I imaging the switcher will still lite the tubes down at > 1.8V in, and do it with reasonable efficiency. So far only Jeff & > David have done it. If it was easy, everybody would do it. > > Please share your progress. This is after all a hobby group, and we > are on this web (still think its only a passing fad). I give high > brownie points to those who share their ideas. All the info on my > nixie projects, are free for anyone to make, given they actually want > to. Just Google threeneurons nixie.
Your clocks are great, I actually never heard of decatrons until I started digging deeper in the nixies :-) You could convert a battery voltage to a nixie voltage relatively easy with a MAX771 circuit. It will only not give you the maximum efficiency. What I have done is basically design a circuit (using multiple ICs) that together function in a similar way as the MAX771, but slightly different in order to increase the efficiency. So it's a bit more complicated than just using 1 IC, but I hope it pays off the effort. Once finished, I am going to compare my circuit with the standard MAX771 and see how the two compare to each other. Michel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
