[neonixie-l] Re: best method for pin cleaning?

2021-04-13 Thread gregebert
Martin - Have you tried measuring the resistance of the pin's corrosion ? Scrape-away the corrosion at one and of the pin, and try measuring at the opposite end with minimum pressure. Might need an analog meter, or at least disable autoranging on a DMM. I've only seen corrosion on IN-18's and i

Re: [neonixie-l] OT: How to convert composite video into TTL?

2021-04-13 Thread Adrian Godwin
Could you use an old 'scope ? Or would it be too big ? On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 10:57 PM jb-electronics wrote: > Hey all, > > I am looking for a 5"-6" monochrome CRT, preferable green or amber, with > composite video input. If anybody has one for sale, please let me know! > > Best wishes > Jens >

[neonixie-l] best method for pin cleaning?

2021-04-13 Thread alb.001 alb.001
I use a 3M diamond abrasive plastic film which you can get in finess down to 1 micron.  I use a 10 Micron one for very fine gentle sanding of things like nixie pins.  It is slow but effective.   Coarser versions would work faster.  Pharma Phil -- Original Message --

Re: [neonixie-l] OT: How to convert composite video into TTL?

2021-04-13 Thread Mac Doktor
> On Apr 13, 2021, at 2:09 PM, Robert G. Schaffrath > wrote: > > Big problem these days is where to get an NTSC video source. The only things > I currently have left are an old 8mm camcorder and a digital to NTSC > converter box that were common when the US went all digital. FYI: if you hav

Re: [neonixie-l] OT: How to convert composite video into TTL?

2021-04-13 Thread jb-electronics
Hey all, I am looking for a 5"-6" monochrome CRT, preferable green or amber, with composite video input. If anybody has one for sale, please let me know! Best wishes Jens On 2021-04-13 8:41 a.m., 'John Rehwinkel' via neonixie-l wrote: I'm not saying don't try it - it would be very educationa

Re: [neonixie-l] IV26 VFD differences.

2021-04-13 Thread Yohan Park
Ah I see, IV-26 is much larger On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:12:50 PM UTC+2 Dekatron42 wrote: > You can find the IV-25 on Gstube too: http://www.gstube.com/data/1694/ > > Their general datasheet page is here: http://www.gstube.com/data/ > > /Martin > > On Tuesday, 13 April 2021 at 21:56:32 UTC

Re: [neonixie-l] IV26 VFD differences.

2021-04-13 Thread Dekatron42
You can find the IV-25 on Gstube too: http://www.gstube.com/data/1694/ Their general datasheet page is here: http://www.gstube.com/data/ /Martin On Tuesday, 13 April 2021 at 21:56:32 UTC+2 w...@kitsunegari.net wrote: > I can't find a datasheet for IV-26 so I don't know what the difference > be

Re: [neonixie-l] IV26 VFD differences.

2021-04-13 Thread Yohan Park
I can't find a datasheet for IV-26 so I don't know what the difference between the IV-25 and IV-26 is. Does anyone know? I have around 700 IV-25 tubes here and they all have non-clipped circular dots. On Friday, April 9, 2021 at 9:03:57 AM UTC+2 Dekatron42 wrote: > There are a few different typ

Re: [neonixie-l] OT: How to convert composite video into TTL?

2021-04-13 Thread gregebert
VCRs and older game consoles (like the original XBOX) will provide NTSC via their AV output. Some of the newer TVs dont even have composite video jacks, so the standard is rapidly dying. Too bad, because studio-quality NTSC is actually very crisp; it's the transmission medium and receivers th

Re: [neonixie-l] OT: How to convert composite video into TTL?

2021-04-13 Thread Robert G. Schaffrath
Back in the 1990's I purchased new surplus CRT based viewfinder module designed for a camcorder from a surplus electronics vendor. Was rather inexpensive. It has a tiny 1" B&W CRT and takes composite NTSC video. The only issue with it was the image was mirrored due to it being designed to be vi

Re: [neonixie-l] OT: How to convert composite video into TTL?

2021-04-13 Thread 'John Rehwinkel' via neonixie-l
> I'm not saying don't try it - it would be very educational, though best if > you can get hold of a schematic. But a lot easier to get hold of an NTSC > monitor, I think. The people who maintain arcade machines have been scraping > up all the large colour monitors recently but I doubt they'd ha

[neonixie-l] Re: Nixie 7977

2021-04-13 Thread Pierre-Yves Clerson
Hi everybody, Many thx for your help. Sorry for late reply, I don't know why, my email software doesn't show up your replies. w30, my son bought it 2 years ago on ebay, I had to investigate to identify the model. Obviously I was wrong. I'm sorry I bought a counterfeit model. Maybe it just does