Re: [neonixie-l] New to group, building with B7971s

2017-12-02 Thread Terry Kennedy
On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 12:09:54 AM UTC-5, Jeff Walton wrote: > > Terry - I don't know if your earlier MOD-SIX clocks had tube hour > registers, but my curiosity is how many hours do you have on your B7971 > tubes on your clocks? Have you had any failures? > Yes, the tube timer was a f

Re: [neonixie-l] New to group, building with B7971s

2017-12-02 Thread Jeff Walton
xie-l Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] New to group, building with B7971s On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 8:48:39 PM UTC-5, William Lee wrote:Badnixie just released a new assembly, including in kit format that looks really nice.  I am hoping to get one if I can scrape the funds together:

Re: [neonixie-l] New to group, building with B7971s

2017-12-02 Thread Terry Kennedy
On Saturday, December 2, 2017 at 8:48:39 PM UTC-5, William Lee wrote: > > Badnixie just released a new assembly, including in kit format that looks > really nice. I am hoping to get one if I can scrape the funds together: > > http://badnixie.com/BadNixie.com_Welcome.html > These are really nice

Re: [neonixie-l] New to group, building with B7971s

2017-12-02 Thread Dylan Distasio
Tim- Badnixie just released a new assembly, including in kit format that looks really nice. I am hoping to get one if I can scrape the funds together: http://badnixie.com/BadNixie.com_Welcome.html On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 6:40 PM, Tim G wrote: > Hi - > > I recently retrieved my B7971 tubes out

Re: [neonixie-l] New to group, building with B7971s

2017-11-25 Thread Cqr
http://tayloredge.com/ have b7971 smartsockets in kit, or assembled form. Plus a nice range of power supply modules, I used them in nixiebot : http://hackaday.io/project/9155-nixiebot Cheers, Robin. > On 25 Nov 2017, at 23:40, Tim G wrote: > > Hi - > > I recently retrieved my B7971

[neonixie-l] New to group, building with B7971s

2017-11-25 Thread Tim G
Hi - I recently retrieved my B7971 tubes out of storage. I bought them about 40 years ago. I'm now getting interested in creating a display, and I'm looking at the options. I've been looking at the driver board design by Greg Ebert, but I've also seen the Smart Sockets. It looks like there was