> I ended up with an 18K resistor giving me just over 2.5ma @ 181 V. > From my experiments the resistor that "calculates" out best appears to > visually light the nixie best too. > > Thank you for your help and patience. > > Steve
Here's a little drawing I made a while ago: http://snipurl.com/1askfd You can measure the nixie current, indirectly, by measuring the voltage across the anode resistor, and using Ohm's Law to calculate the current. And here's my intro to my NEW rant: <rant> We in the WEST (North America & Europe) are going down the toilet because too many of us do not want to learn math. 'Oh its too hard, and what are we going to use it for anyways'. When you go to engineering school, they'll throw a lot of heavy duty mathematics at you (calculus, differential equations, ...), and they'll expect you to know it in other classes (Physics ...). This seems to discourage a lot of wimpy kids, who use the line 'we ain't going to use it'. They don't understand that its not just the manipulation, but concepts behind the weird squiggles, that are equally, if not more important. In India, they make their engineering students take shop class (metal machining, ...) . Its not to give them a skill as a machinist, but to take fabrication methods into consideration when they design something. You don't want to have to lift the engine, in order to change the oil filter. Don't laugh, its happened. So kiddies, suck it up, and learn your math, or else get ready to live in a third world country, and you don't even have to move.</rant> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
