>From the photo I can see that you have mounted the tubes on tube carrier boards - great idea for those tubes - so many legs to solder! As bill suggested, more tubes would be lovely, could you even make it modular? 8 or 10 tube versions would be most welcome.
Richard On Wednesday, 4 December 2019 03:53:14 UTC, martin martin wrote: > > those curvy tubes look great! > Where can they be had? > > On Tuesday, November 26, 2019 at 4:19:55 AM UTC-8, Mitch wrote: >> >> >> >> I was a little surprised that the power supplies worked the first time. A >> LM2576 is used to drop the supply voltage to 5v. Two 34063 chips raise that >> voltage to 32v, and lower it to 1.65v. The datasheet and online calculators >> for the 34063s made that part easy. >> >> The next revision will use separate tube boards. Curiously the tubes I >> have with 1990 date codes aren’t very bright. The 1987 versions are good. >> >> I can’t seem to find matching LEDs for the blue-green color, to use for >> colons. Otherwise everything works as it should. >> >> >> >> >> >> [image: IMG-0185.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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4012bfa5-648e-4698-8471-1be0d051f9c3%40googlegroups.com.
