Uh,5v looks dark,may be 6.3v will be batter?And may the 5v will let it have a long life. Right,I wanna make a clock ;) Or I will copy one for my clock.:)
On Sunday, May 18, 2014 9:54:18 PM UTC+8, greg...@hotmail.com wrote: > The closest thing I've seen was a digital voltmeter I had years ago and > converted it into a clock. The display was a single unit of 5 digits, and > there were individual type 527 (I think that's the number; very commonly > used for illuminated switches from the 1960's thru 1980's). Those bulbs > were rated for 100,000 hours of usage at 5V. > > If I were you, I would go ahead and build the clock (just guessing here, > but isn't that what most of us do with these vintage displays ?) for 6 > digits in case you are lucky enough to find another unit, and use it as an > hours:minutes display for now. > > BTW, I threw the clock away about 10 years ago because the stepper-relays > were intermittent despite multiple attempts to clean them > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/bc85d917-0d9c-4fc2-926f-89b8997788b9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
