Re: [neonixie-l] 1363 carrier board, free surplus for UK readers

2015-12-26 Thread Michail1 via neonixie-l
Robin, Since I don't use twitter, I shamefully took 15 mins just to figure out how to tweet to the tubes. It was a quick response/email back. Nice! I have threatened to do something like that in the past, but with 16 or more tubes. Unfortunately, skills and more importantly time seem to

Re: [neonixie-l] 1363 carrier board, free surplus for UK readers

2015-12-26 Thread Zedsquared
Hi Michail, there's no technical reason not to go with more tubes, the smartsockets can be chained together more or less indefinitely (there is *eventually* a speed issue as the boards pass the data along the chain at 9600 baud ) and the pi has loads of resource compared with a microcon

Re: [neonixie-l] 1363 carrier board, free surplus for UK readers

2015-12-26 Thread Michail1 via neonixie-l
Very nice. Other than funds, is there anything stopping you from going to a longer string of tubes? Is the intent to go to a longer string since you currently have 4x power supplies? Michail In a message dated 12/22/2015 2:30:04 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, ro...@cqr-ltd.com writes