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> On Mar 27, 2017, at 3:47 PM, Paul Andrews <p...@nixies.us> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> As bought some DM160 and IV-15 tubes a while back. It was difficult to find 
> much information on either, but especially the IV-15 tubes. There is a 
> partial translation of the Russian data sheet here on this group and I 
> managed to find some more information at 
> http://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_iv-15.html (which also has the only 
> diagram I have been able to find of the pin outs. So I though I would present 
> my own results for the IV-15 here (I have already done so for the DM160 
> separately).
> 
> Basically the IV-15 is pretty much a drop-in replacement for the DM160, 
> except that the filament voltage and current should be 0.6V and 42mA 
> respectively.
> 
> Controlling the brightness is also done by pulling the grid voltage -ve wrt 
> to the filament, anything below around -3V will turn it off completely. 0V is 
> full brightness.
> 
> The 'HV' for the anode can be anything from around 10V to 50V, which is 
> slightly more lenient on the low end than the DM160. However, with only 10V 
> on the anode, the filament will not be very bright and you won't really be 
> able to control it with the grid because you will need to be pulling the 
> filament voltage to about 0V (so pulling the grid lower is hard?).
> 
> Anyway, here is one setup that works - it is almost identical to my setup for 
> the DM160, apart from the resistor values for the filament (the resistor 
> values ideal rather than practical, approximations should be fine):
> 
> 
> 
> 
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