.. but if needed - I have a small stash of those - I note that they are no longer available from Adafuit. - Richard
On Friday 5 April 2024 at 08:56:33 UTC+1 Paul Andrew Lafranchise wrote: > Opto-triacs seemed to work fine for my segment driver setup (which I think > is essentially the same as Richard's). I would also be interested in the > details of the power supply you put together. The Adafruit "blue" EL > power supply <https://www.arrow.com/en/products/448/adafruit-industries> > I used is essentially a black (blue? :-)) box and I'd love to replace it > with something I understand better and have built myself. > > On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 9:08 PM Richard Scales <ric...@scalesweb.co.uk> > wrote: > >> 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+...@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 >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/c874d288-338e-43cc-9748-2d99aea71e59n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/496ee24a-a9b5-4c79-9520-a05ca7449015n%40googlegroups.com.
