Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Troubleshooting a mux'd clock

David, They are also the easiest to solder without sockets... so I can see the builders' intent. Some of the replacement tubes (used tubes) had the plastic spacers, but I couldn't leave them on the tubes, as there are components -- LEDs & resistors -- beneath the tubes. In fact 3 different

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Troubleshooting a mux'd clock

Terry, I am surprised that a Nixie tube with wire leads would not be socketed. That's the easiest type of tube to put a socket on! These tubes often are sold with a plastic alignment wafer that will align the wires for you, if you hold the wafer against the PCB while pushing the wires down

[neonixie-l] Re: Troubleshooting a mux'd clock

Another quick update. Replacing the 10's hours tube worked fine. So I do indeed have two bad tubes. I've extracted the other bad tube (1's minutes) and will replace it this evening. Once I got that going -- after tearing out what is left of my hair trying to get all 13 tube wires into the PCB

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: There's more!

Yeah, something fishy definitely going on there. On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Nick wrote: > Auction was ended early... no bids at the time... > > Nick > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe

[neonixie-l] Re: There's more!

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