Re: [neonixie-l] Impession of the IN-18 Bluie Dream Series 2

2012-06-01 Thread Dan Harboe Burer
Assembling robots? I presume you mean SMT Pick &Place Machines :) I work with programming and maintaining (and also running it) such a Beast (Siemens Siplace - and soon a brand new ASM SX 1 million Euro SMT Machine!)- and also with similar tasks on the screen printer and reflow oven ;) Dan -

Re: [neonixie-l] Impession of the IN-18 Bluie Dream Series 2

2012-06-01 Thread Dieter Waechter
Hi David! Do you do this surface-mount soldering in-house, or are you visiting the assembly factory? We have only a small self made PC controlled oven for prototyping. (not finished so well - as every tool I use ;-) This lot made another friend for us with assembling robots, ovens, aso. Dieter

Re: [neonixie-l] Impession of the IN-18 Bluie Dream Series 2

2012-06-01 Thread David Forbes
On 6/1/2012 12:24 PM, Dieter Waechter wrote: Hi Gang see the new IN-18 series in the cool down process after the ferlow soldering process. ;-) The clock is HOT! Dieter Dieter, That is a lot of clocks. That is a lot fo IN-18 tubes to fill them all as well. Do you do this surface-mount sol

Re: [neonixie-l] Arduino Nixie Clock

2012-06-01 Thread Dieter Waechter
Thanks Dan. Here some other I have found: http://hackaday.com/2009/06/22/arduino-nixie-shield/ http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/03/20/rtc-and-port-expander-for-an-arduino-nixie-clock/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4fQE4ddzrk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v5NefSyBYc http://www.youtube.com/

Re: [neonixie-l] Impession of the IN-18 Bluie Dream Series 2

2012-06-01 Thread Tomislav Kordaso
Engineer p0rn :) Great job Dieter! Thanks for sharing. Tomislav Sent from my mobile device -Original Message- From: "Dieter Waechter" Sender: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 21:24:41 To: Neonixies Reply-To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: [neonixie-l] Impession of

Re: [neonixie-l] Arduino Nixie Clock

2012-06-01 Thread Dan Harboe Burer
Hi Dieter, Here's one.. http://arduinix.com/ :) Dan - Original Message - From: "Dieter Waechter" To: "Neonixies" Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 7:39 AM Subject: [neonixie-l] Arduino Nixie Clock Hi! There were a discussion about it some days ago. I did not follow it, since I'm not i

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Supertex HV5522 supply current

2012-06-01 Thread Adam Jacobs
I understand your point, Terry.. Which I think is the classic "Slippery Slope" argument. You get used to cutting corners, before you know it you're trying the same tricks at work where you design nuclear reactor cooling systems, the systems fail due to your design choices that were outside of s

[neonixie-l] Re: Supertex HV5522 supply current

2012-06-01 Thread Terry S
The part is fabbed in HVCMOS, so yes, it will continue to function at some level down to where the CMOS transistor structures no longer switch -- probably well below 3 volts. But... The problem with using a part like that outside its spec is that you simply can't predict what parameters won't be m

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Supertex HV5522 supply current

2012-06-01 Thread Adam Jacobs
That is interesting. My guess is that there are lots of lazy engineers out there that have figured out that the part works OK on 5v. That's why experimentation is so important. If I was going to make a WAG, I'd bet that it works at 5v although probably at slower speeds. Try it with 5v if it is

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Supertex HV5522 supply current

2012-06-01 Thread Antoine Vanoutryve
Hi Terry. Indeed I found only one schematic using 12Vā€‹ā€‹. Most of schematics available on Google use 5V. That's why I preferred to ask. I will use 12V with transistors then. Thank you for your reply. Antoine On 01 Jun 2012, at 13:48, Terry S wrote: > The datasheet does not indicate an operat

[neonixie-l] Re: Supertex HV5522 supply current

2012-06-01 Thread Terry S
The datasheet does not indicate an operating supply voltage of -0.5 to +15v, those are the absolute maximum ratings. Use the part within it's recommended ratings of 10.8 to 13.2 volts and you won't have any issues. Otherwise, all bets are off. It never ceases to amaze me when people use a part ou

[neonixie-l] Supertex HV5522 supply current

2012-06-01 Thread Pengouin
Hi, I intend to use Supertex HV5522 to build a Nixie clock with four IN-18 tubes. I found some schematics on the Internet. Some use 5V directly connected to HV5522 and some use higher voltages (12V) with a field effect transistor connected to a 5V MCU. I plan on using a PIC MCU running at 3.3V

Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie multimeter

2012-06-01 Thread jb-electronics
Hello Tobias, nice project! I would very much like to see how this evolves. But just one thing: You mention you measure voltage before and after the shunt to get a current reading. This sounds to me like you are wasting a lot (!) of ADC resolution for that fact because you would always subtra