I have a board which drives the displays just fine, opt triacs which I drive from a PIC using the B-7971 Smart Socket code (slightly modified) and i have had great success using the 'blue' EL power supply from Adafruit (I think that's where they came from - I bought a bag of them).
For the sake of doing it right I would be interested in some of your HV EL power supplies - I am broadly assuming that the will perform better than what I have used so far. - Richard On Monday 1 April 2024 at 23:24:17 UTC+1 gregebert wrote: > Right now it looks like there will be 3 different PCB's: One for the HV > power supply, one for a single I-95, and another for 2-4 IEL-0-IV (I havn't > sized the board yet, but it needs to be less than 4" per side). I use a > modular design approach, and everything is connected with a 10-pin > ribbon-cable serial bus I call IOLINK. So if you are willing to adapt your > favorite controller to the IOLINK interface, which uses 12V signalling (2 > inputs, 5 outputs), these boards will be workable for you. > > On Monday, April 1, 2024 at 7:59:59 AM UTC-7 Keith Moore wrote: > >> I am interested but not much help with the design. I'd love to use my >> displays though. >> >> On Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 1:43:24 PM UTC-4 gregebert wrote: >> >>> I'm finally at the point I have time to work on a design for my >>> Soviet-era electroluminescent displays. I have 2 types, the smaller >>> IEL-0-IV, and a much larger I-195. Both are the 'alien' style formats, and >>> will make unusual clocks. >>> >>> I have done some very initial testing on the smaller one, and it appears >>> to be burning the phosphor after just a few hours of usage. It's not lit >>> very bright, so I dont know if this is a common burn-in phase, or not. >>> Documentation is pretty limited, and I've been running a 50-page document >>> page-by-page thru google translate; so far nothing has come up regarding >>> burn-in. >>> >>> If anyone out there is working-on IEL's, or planning-to do so, please >>> chime in so we can start a discussion here. >>> >>> [image: electrolum.jpg] >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c874d288-338e-43cc-9748-2d99aea71e59n%40googlegroups.com.
