I'm really not at all familiar with them, but am interested to learn more. I do have an old Heathkit(?) cap tester that uses one of the end-on style tubes. I need to dig that out and see if it works.
Have a small stash of IN-9 and IN-13 bought before prices became idiotic that I might use for a thermometer or spectrum display at some point. But no magic eyes yet other than the one... On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 7:57 PM Mac Doktor <themacdok...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2022, at 5:25 PM, Aisha Love <aishalovedra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My interest started with Nixie tubes and expanded from there. I hope to > one day have a large collection of unique vintage display devices. > > > Magic eyes. Here are some really inexpensive boards that are a good > starting point. They have a 12V jack, 3.5mm audio jack and a power switch out > of the way in the back. This first one includes a Chinese EM84: > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/193443031569 > > > The second is almost identical. It uses three different sockets for three > different pinouts: EM80/81, EM800/EM84 or a Soviet 6E5S: > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/191011269169 > > > The seller has all three sockets. I bought six boards and two sets of > sockets. I also scored two or three each of the tubes listed above. The > only caveat with these particular boards is that the 6V regulator and the > power MOSFET don't have heatsinks and I haven't been able to find any small > enough to fit (there's almost no room). The first board has an LM317 and it > gets hotter than the LM7806. > > The 6E5S really heats things up. My eternal thanks to anyone who can find > an affordable TO-220 heatsink that's barely larger than the horizontal TTR > itself. > > > My apologies if I've already talked about this before. I'm very happy with > what I ended up with and like to share. 8D > > I really do need to post this info to my blog but I haven't had time to > take pictures and shoot video. Sound familiar? > > > Terry Bowman, KA4HJH > "The Mac Doctor" > > "If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."—Roy Batty, *Blade > Runner* > > -- > 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/05DDBC1F-CEB1-4035-93A6-A5F06A4FAF28%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/05DDBC1F-CEB1-4035-93A6-A5F06A4FAF28%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAJD4P-j4_xXQ74VeZVGqDuQ%2BpUdyUXD1UggR5_-RK%2B4MLH26Bg%40mail.gmail.com.
