Interesting. The HV5812 is a CMOS device rated for 80V, so it will be vulnerable to overstress if the nixie tubes leak (no bleeder resistors are present).
Has anyone ever had driver failure ? If not, then I guess the blanking time is sufficient enough for charge to decay to a safe level, or the HV5812 is more tolerant of high-voltages than the datasheet indicates (or a combination thereof). -- 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/ecf04f1e-c466-40c5-97d8-c17770fd8718%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
