Thanks, Paul! On Mon, 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): > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-O5Aav-aKwMg/WNlryfVW_gI/AAAAAAAAAhM/fQOL8VJT7_MtmZwNW_19DpWcaYTOV9wJgCLcB/s1600/iv-15.JPG> > > -- > 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 email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/neonixie-l/6ec87f82-1b35-4823-906a-3c01a09b7785%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6ec87f82-1b35-4823-906a-3c01a09b7785%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAJrqPH9bMEXF_dZR-PBFgcxUsmroK9SoQ2TZmbJ9jz052VN%3DVw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
