Honestly, I think one WS2812B is enough. They are very bright. On Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 7:13:39 AM UTC-4, David Pye wrote: > > Hi, > > That's good to know - thank you! > > I am planning some custom-made PCBs with freestanding nixie pins to mount > them. > > I'll have a look when they arrive and check my KiCAD footprints are right. > > I'm also planning to bottom-light them with three 5mm WS2812B-alike > 'smart' LEDs per tube. > > David > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 17:01, gregebert <greg...@hotmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> I have 14 IN-18 tubes running in my clock for a few years now, with no >> failures. *They are a good quality tube*. >> >> Be careful when socketing them, because the pin material is a soft metal >> that bends easily. >> The light surface corrosion on the pins is harmless, and I dont recommend >> trying to clean it off. >> The one exception I've see is an IN-18 manufactured in 1977 that has >> stiff corrosion-resistant pins. >> I've never observed any glowing bondwires, or blue dots. >> >> Keep an eye out for cathode poisoning, because it has happened to me on a >> few tubes, BUT it has always been 100% recoverable at nominal current. >> >> The cathode poisoning is entirely my fault because the month and year >> display tubes are basically static. Even though I run a nightly depoisoning >> sequence for 1 hour, some tubes slowly got poisoned anyways. All I did was >> swap sockets, and after a few days the problem was gone. >> >> >> -- >> 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 neoni...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to neoni...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/93c54f1c-6898-4bf5-90eb-4d3b96e5e866%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/93c54f1c-6898-4bf5-90eb-4d3b96e5e866%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >
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