Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal

2014-05-14 Thread petehand
I had a bit of trouble finding the SHT21 in the US - all I could find from Sensirion was a *Parallax module at $43 http://www.digikey.com/product-search/en?vendor=0keywords=sensirion* - but the *SI7020-A10 from Silicon Labs

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2014-05-14 Thread electrofish
I did to. I'm in the UK and the only supplier I could find was Farnell at a whopping £18.83 but now they are for sale at £2.91. Depressing as the first I bought I destroyed : ( I think an email to Farnell is in order to find out why the price difference. Regards John On Wednesday, May 14,

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2014-05-14 Thread Tidak Ada
:07 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal I did to. I'm in the UK and the only supplier I could find was Farnell at a whopping £18.83 but now they are for sale at £2.91. Depressing as the first I bought I destroyed : ( I think an email

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2014-05-14 Thread electrofish
Emailed Farnell. Farnell came back and said Sensirion have reduced significantly the pricing on this part to all the market last month So £2.91 it is then Regards John On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:07:28 AM UTC+1, electrofish wrote: I did to. I'm in the UK and the only supplier I could find

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2014-05-14 Thread Tidak Ada
: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal Emailed Farnell. Farnell came back and said Sensirion have reduced significantly the pricing on this part to all the market last month So £2.91 it is then Regards John On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:07:28 AM UTC+1, electrofish wrote: I did to. I'm

RE: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal

2014-05-14 Thread Tidak Ada
Sorry, had to be sent to a friend e. _ From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tidak Ada Sent: woensdag 14 mei 2014 15:32 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal Roland, Kijk even

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2014-05-14 Thread John Sturgeon
*Sent:* woensdag 14 mei 2014 15:32 *To:* neonixie-l@googlegroups.com *Subject:* RE: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal Roland, Kijk even naar het bericht op NEONIXIE. Gigantische prijsverlaging van de SHT21!! Grtz., eric -- *From

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2014-05-13 Thread electrofish
-Original Message- From: neoni...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: neoni...@googlegroups.com javascript:] On Behalf Of John Rehwinkel Sent: zaterdag 10 mei 2014 13:57 To: neoni...@googlegroups.com javascript: Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal

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2014-05-13 Thread John Sturgeon
] On Behalf Of John Rehwinkel Sent: zaterdag 10 mei 2014 13:57 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal sorry for opening an old post (2012?) but I couldn't see any others and didn't think it with opening a new thread. I'm not the smartest

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2014-05-13 Thread electrofish
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3wGXVSwCmTE/U3H8r8-GuqI/AEM/1PkPPNGIAa0/s1600/1405131132235623227.jpg It's not a good day for my internet connection so the reply went haywire before I could attach the photo Third time lucky On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:52:39 AM UTC+1, electrofish

Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal

2014-05-10 Thread John Rehwinkel
sorry for opening an old post (2012?) but I couldn't see any others and didn't think it with opening a new thread. I'm not the smartest hobby electronics person but I do enjoy tinkering : ) I have been building one of these to add to my small (so far) collection of nixie clocks etc. I

RE: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal

2014-05-10 Thread Tidak Ada
] On Behalf Of John Rehwinkel Sent: zaterdag 10 mei 2014 13:57 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal sorry for opening an old post (2012?) but I couldn't see any others and didn't think it with opening a new thread. I'm not the smartest

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2012-07-05 Thread Tidak Ada
: donderdag 5 juli 2012 3:57 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal Upper case. Kelvin is a proper name. Examples: Ohm Ampere Diesel Etc -Original Message- From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com

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2012-07-05 Thread jb-electronics
of capacitance is thus just the centimeter! jk - Original Message - From: John Rehwinkel jreh...@mac.com To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 3:46 AM Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal ...clip. Agreed! As I got into electronics

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2012-07-05 Thread Lucky
I hadn't even thought about tire sizes... and leave 'our' 50hz alone haha, out of interest though this is from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) There is speculation that the value of 50 Hz was chosen in Europe as being an element in the metric “Series of Preferred

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2012-07-04 Thread Frank Bemelman
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal I would think that USA is big/well known enough and probably the largest user of Nixie for fun devices that a programmer would have implemented (easily) a Fahrenheit feature. A feature which would take maybe a couple hours

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2012-07-04 Thread Nick
On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 05:28:41 UTC+1, Lucky wrote: Still makes me laugh, here in the UK people use Fahrenheit when describing 'hot' days but Centigrade when 'cold'! Anyway I think it should be measured in 'Kelvins' ;) No-one that I know of in the UK still uses degrees F, except

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2012-07-04 Thread Huggermugger
Message - From: Frank Bemelman bemel...@franktechniek.nl To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal If we keep supporting Fahrenheit you poor guys never get rid of it ;-) Next items on the agenda

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2012-07-04 Thread John Rehwinkel
Having made 4 major tours in the States, I am rather used to Fahrenheights (but not Rocky Mountain), inches, gallons and miles, so IF Elektor could offer both F and C, that would be nice. On the other hand, my more physicistisch ego would like to see some Kelvins here. Doesn't anybody want

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2012-07-04 Thread Nick
On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 11:50:51 UTC+1, Soundbrigade wrote: Having made 4 major tours in the States, I am rather used to Fahrenheights (but not Rocky Mountain), inches, gallons and miles, so IF Elektor could offer both F and C, that would be nice. On the other hand, my more physicistisch

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2012-07-04 Thread Tidak Ada
- Original Message - From: Frank Bemelman bemel...@franktechniek.nl To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2012 8:59 AM Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal If we keep supporting Fahrenheit you poor guys never get rid of it ;-) Next items on the agenda

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2012-07-04 Thread jb-electronics
12:51 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal Having made 4 major tours in the States, I am rather used to Fahrenheights (but not Rocky Mountain), inches, gallons and miles, so IF Elektor could offer both F and C, that would be nice

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2012-07-04 Thread Lucky
UK Liquid volume: pints for fresh milk but litres for evaporated-pints for beer but millilitres/mills for spirits Distance/length: miles/yards/feet for distance but metres/centimetres for building materials (and drawings) Weight: Lbs/ounces for produce (and sometimes grammes but we wont go

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2012-07-04 Thread Tidak Ada
A -Original Message- From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of jb-electronics Sent: woensdag 4 juli 2012 15:45 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal Yeah, but it is a small prefix k, I

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2012-07-04 Thread Tidak Ada
Of Huggermugger Sent: woensdag 4 juli 2012 12:51 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal Having made 4 major tours in the States, I am rather used to Fahrenheights (but not Rocky Mountain), inches, gallons and miles, so IF Elektor could offer both

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2012-07-04 Thread jb-electronics
: woensdag 4 juli 2012 12:51 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal Having made 4 major tours in the States, I am rather used to Fahrenheights (but not Rocky Mountain), inches, gallons and miles, so IF Elektor could offer both F and C, that would

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2012-07-04 Thread Michail1
John, I thought about Tires as well. Funny you brought it up. So you know, we are in the 21st century. At least most of us. :) Michail In a message dated 7/4/2012 11:16:49 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jreh...@mac.com writes: No wonder we can be a mixed up lot, we will drag

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2012-07-04 Thread Bill van Dijk
: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal It was used for prefixes, like kOhm or something like that, so that is why I think of it as a lower case. But it is not so clear to me anymore: http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/data/IN-19A/in-19a-l-k.jpg Weird font, don't know

OT Mixed measure Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal

2012-07-04 Thread Charles MacDonald
Distance/length: miles/yards/feet for distance but metres/centimetres for building materials (and drawings) gee, It is just the reverse in Canada, with Km for Distance, but things like Plywood still come in 4X8 foot sheets to fit on studs spaced at 18 inches. Small things may come in

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2012-07-04 Thread Charles MacDonald
On 12-07-04 02:59 AM, Frank Bemelman wrote: If we keep supporting Fahrenheit you poor guys never get rid of it ;-) When Canada went Metric there was a change of Government who decided that the freedom to measure is a measure of your freedom and so they backed away from some of the plans.

Re: OT Mixed measure Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal

2012-07-04 Thread Tobias
My preferred approximation from F to C would be dividing by two but still taking the 32 into consideration... What I can't quite understand about the Imperial system is why they decided to go with 3, 12 and 16. I.E. 12 inches for a foot, 3 feet makes a yard. And 16 oz a pint. On top of that all

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2012-07-04 Thread JohnK
- Original Message - From: John Rehwinkel jreh...@mac.com To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2012 3:46 AM Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal ...clip. Agreed! As I got into electronics at an early age, I was already familiar

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2012-07-04 Thread John Rehwinkel
Next items on the agenda is 60Hz for Europe If you are going to make the change why not go to 400Hz? Save Ton of Copper in transformers. And smaller capacitors, less lamp flicker, easy inductive chargers, and all sorts of good things. There's been some research on electrical effects on

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2012-07-03 Thread Huggermugger
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 11:20 PM Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal I couldn't find (although didn't search long), if it will output F as well as C? Michail In a message dated 7/2/2012 1:26:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, huggermug...@pastisch.se

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2012-07-03 Thread Charles MacDonald
On 12-07-03 06:46 AM, Huggermugger wrote: Guess temperatures in Centigrades as the designer propably is from Dutchland (Holland) (Netherlands that is). I couldn't find (although didn't search long), if it will output F as well as C?oogle.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. there are only a

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2012-07-03 Thread Michail1
I would think that USA is big/well known enough and probably the largest user of Nixie for fun devices that a programmer would have implemented (easily) a Fahrenheit feature. A feature which would take maybe a couple hours (at most) to add, would be smart to open your product open for a

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2012-07-03 Thread Dave
In the article, the author states that F is not on the IN-19 tube he used and that is why there is no Fahrenheit feature. Personally, I would displayed Fahrenheit after the C reading and simply blanked the IN-19. On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 9:23:36 PM UTC-4, Michail wrote: I would think that

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2012-07-03 Thread Dave
Done, article retrieved if anyone has questions, just post and I'll answer. On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 7:23:13 PM UTC-4, charles wrote: On 12-07-03 06:46 AM, Huggermugger wrote: Guess temperatures in Centigrades as the designer propably is from Dutchland (Holland) (Netherlands that is).

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2012-07-03 Thread Lucky
Still makes me laugh, here in the UK people use Fahrenheit when describing 'hot' days but Centigrade when 'cold'! Anyway I think it should be measured in 'Kelvins' ;) On Wednesday, 4 July 2012 05:20:32 UTC+1, Dave wrote: In the article, the author states that F is not on the IN-19 tube he

[neonixie-l] Nixie thermometer in Elektor journal

2012-07-02 Thread Huggermugger
Looking for the latest pre-amp project I saw this little project involving IN-14 and IN-19A nixies. http://www.elektor.com/magazines/2012/june/nixie-thermometer-hygrometer.2159318.lynkx /Magnus -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups neonixie-l group. To

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2012-07-02 Thread Michail1
I couldn't find (although didn't search long), if it will output F as well as C? Michail In a message dated 7/2/2012 1:26:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, huggermug...@pastisch.se writes: Looking for the latest pre-amp project I saw this little project involving IN-14 and IN-19A