> > I am thinking that they are initially wanting to sell their clocks and thus > the proprietary pin-out. It doesn’t seem to be the most practical business > approach but credit for trying to keep the art of nixies alive.
This verbiage on their page makes me think they have a driver in the base, so they might not require separate high voltage drivers, maybe just serial data or somesuch, making them easy to integrate with microcontrollers, but of course not compatible with ordinary bare nixies. "To make ZIN18 tubes smarter, the Z class base has been upgraded to a smart-base. Each base has a seating that consists of a programmable circuit mini board to control the lamp. " - John -- 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/842E8B0A-7D8B-42A8-9BB1-A021BB286AFF%40mac.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.