[neonixie-l] Re: Nixie pendulum pov project.

2012-04-27 Thread threeneurons
I made a propeller Xmas display, a few years back. A major limiting factor is your eyeballs. My display rotates somewhere between 250 to 400 rpm. This limitation is due mostly to wind resistance. The motor free runs ~1800rpm. At that rate, it still forms an acceptable display. It falls apart if

[neonixie-l] Re: Nixie pendulum pov project.

2012-04-28 Thread dr pepper
Yes of course your correct. Except for the complete revolution bit, you can buy commercial clocks that have an inverted pendulum, that said the pendulum doesnt swing under gravity its driven at a high enough frequency to eliminate flicker. I have modded the code for my clock so that now it works j