I responded to this post via email but apparently it didn't go through for some reason. I am not very enamored with Google Groups... Anyway, this is what I typed into my ASR-33:
I'm not sure what you mean by "top tubes" unless you mean the IN-17 variety that have wires instead of pins. I built the "Lena" a couple months ago and really like it. http://nixiekits.eu/ The kit is very high quality and well thought-out, and the PIC programming is quite clever in terms of the various effects that can be configured. I must say, though, that the fact that the IN-12 tubes use an upside-down "2" filament for the "5" drives me a bit crazy, so I try to never look at my clock when there's a "5" in the hours or minutes ;^) . Also, Lena uses IN-17s for the seconds digits. You would probably want the Lara kit, which has the same mainboard but a different daughtercard for the six IN-2s. Of course all of those tubes have "on the top" digits; if that's what you mean then of course none of those will do. In that case, check out "Sven reloaded" which uses side-view nixies. BTW all of those kits have some SMT components, which are pre-soldered. But the Lena was still a fairly challenging kit to build, in a good way. You HAVE to follow the instructions closely or you will goof something up, I'm sure if it. cheers, Dave B. -- 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/0c740ed4-5a7c-483d-b34f-455333f73b92%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
