RE: [neonixie-l] Anode drivers for panaplex displays

2012-01-07 Thread Tidak Ada
Hi Konstantin, At the site of Jogi's Rohrenbude you can find a complete design of a stereo VU-meter with a Burrough's BG12201 bargraph display. [ http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Leserbriefe/Glimmroehre-Stereo-Anzeige/Bargr aph.htm ] (in German) The BG12201 differs, as far as I know, from your BG1

[neonixie-l] Re: MY FIRST POST - NEED A LOT OF HELP HEHE

2012-01-07 Thread Edu Cr0w
> The softstart just warms up the filament more slowly, which might increase > tube life a little. It's a somewhat complicated approach, but if you already > have it, you may as well use it.  I generally just use a higher voltage > supply and a series resistor to provide the proper filament vol

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: MY FIRST POST - NEED A LOT OF HELP HEHE

2012-01-07 Thread John Rehwinkel
> From the webpages I've said I could turn on the tube. > First try I sourced high voltage to the filament (like 3v), was orange > but luckily I didn't burn it :D > > http://www.movius.com.ar/vars/elec/vfd.jpg Yeah, that's too much voltage, the filament wouldn't have lasted very long at that vol

[neonixie-l] Re: MY FIRST POST - NEED A LOT OF HELP HEHE

2012-01-07 Thread Edu Cr0w
Thanks John! >From the webpages I've said I could turn on the tube. First try I sourced high voltage to the filament (like 3v), was orange but luckily I didn't burn it :D http://www.movius.com.ar/vars/elec/vfd.jpg Then I corrected the voltage (to 1.5v): http://www.movius.com.ar/vars/elec/vfd2.j

Re: [neonixie-l] MY FIRST POST - NEED A LOT OF HELP HEHE

2012-01-07 Thread John Rehwinkel
> I am very very new to electronics, I bought and Arduino and I've > started with simple things but I don't have any background in > electronics. It's a good start, and you came to the right place. We have folks here from complete beginners to seasoned experts. And we all have stuff to learn!

Re: [neonixie-l] Just for fuin a "Rare" Nixie.

2012-01-07 Thread David Forbes
On 1/7/12 12:38 AM, jb-electronics wrote: Charles, that is a really nice example of reprinting. But frankly, many tubes that we see are reprinted, for example I am not even sure if Siemens produced their tubes themselves. But still .. You can be SURE! if its Westinghouse. Yes, loved that phr

Re: [neonixie-l] Anode drivers for panaplex displays

2012-01-07 Thread Adam Jacobs
Not sure if it is the _only_ way to go, but I certainly think that it is a great way to go. I believe that those chips are SPI, so no need for additional latches and such. I'm not sure what those chips cost, but they very happily sampled me a big pile a long while back. -Adam W7QI On Sat, Jan 7,

[neonixie-l] Re: IN-14 bases

2012-01-07 Thread Lucky
I would like to thank Konstantin for sending me 6 spacers FOC Happy days. Dave On 1 Jan, 15:33, Lucky wrote: > Wow an early christmas present, that would be great thanks > Konstantin. > I will send you an email with my address. > > Cheers, Dave. > > On 1 Jan, 13:27, "kosbo.com" wrote: > > > > >

[neonixie-l] Anode drivers for panaplex displays

2012-01-07 Thread kosbo.com
Hi All, Best wishes and Happy New Year to everyone! I have got a few panaplex displays, so just looking for chip/chips I can use to drive 7-17 anodes and about 10 cathodes, as these panaplex displays work only in multiplex mode. I really don't want to use transistors as it's too many -about 14

Re: [neonixie-l] Just for fun a "Rare" Nixie.

2012-01-07 Thread Charles MacDonald
On 12-01-07 02:38 AM, jb-electronics wrote: But frankly, many tubes that we see are reprinted, In general the Vacuum tube industry was set up where the makers would sell "Blank" tubes to each other. I recall one place I bought tubes as a Kid had a special on 12AT7 tubes where the distibutor

[neonixie-l] Re: MY FIRST POST - NEED A LOT OF HELP HEHE

2012-01-07 Thread Edu Cr0w
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[neonixie-l] MY FIRST POST - NEED A LOT OF HELP HEHE

2012-01-07 Thread Edu Cr0w
Hello, I joined the group sometime ago, I was reading everything while I was waiting some help from a guy. The time passed and he is busy so I decided to look for help here. I am very very new to electronics, I bought and Arduino and I've started with simple things but I don't have any background

RE: [neonixie-l] Re: FS: Shameless Plug Time - Dekatron Spinner Kits

2012-01-07 Thread Tidak Ada
Great work Mike ! Of course I know a lot, but not all. My experience with dekatrons is not great and I know others even less so it's nice you keep it clear. I hope the EZ10B's I have are not out gassed. Hydrogen is obvious, together with helium, the Houdini under the gasses... Actually that's what

[neonixie-l] Re: FS: Shameless Plug Time - Dekatron Spinner Kits

2012-01-07 Thread threeneurons
On Jan 7, 2:23 am, "Tidak Ada" wrote: > Thanks Mike, > > That's verry usefull info. Now waiting untill your stuff arrives here... > > May be I will buy suitable capacitors and diodes for the higer voltage. > Any hints for the diodes?? > > eric > For actually changing the supply to 500V, the compo

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: FS: Shameless Plug Time - Dekatron Spinner Kits

2012-01-07 Thread Dutchgray
Got mine this morning and a couple hours soldering later have a GC10B spinning nicely. Just need to case it and get a power supply as its not very practicable running it from a bench supply. Very nice little kit. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ne

RE: [neonixie-l] Re: FS: Shameless Plug Time - Dekatron Spinner Kits

2012-01-07 Thread Tidak Ada
Thanks Mike, That's verry usefull info. Now waiting untill your stuff arrives here... May be I will buy suitable capacitors and diodes for the higer voltage. Any hints for the diodes?? eric -Original Message- From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On B

[neonixie-l] Re: Just for fuin a "Rare" Nixie.

2012-01-07 Thread Jon
On Jan 7, 1:10 am, Charles MacDonald wrote: > I suspect that this was intended as a spare part as part of providing > the customer with a complete line for spares, but still it is amusing to > see a "Westinghouse" Nixie. I have a couple of dekatrons which have Westinghouse markings and boxes (

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Where can I send customers for 12VDC wall-warts in UK in particular, EU in general.

2012-01-07 Thread JohnK
When that HDD topic was discussed somewhere [here?] there was a post saying that the actual device was used as part of an in-dash system. The 'flash drive' was acceptable. However, that didn't answer the addition of weights in the form of big nuts. IIRC the topic related to imports to Russia?