I ran into the same problem with the 10's digit in the hour position. When it's dark, it takes extra time to turn back on. I put a 22 Meg resistor from the decimal point to ground. This "primes" the Nixie without turning on the DP (it glows very faintly), and it turns on without the delay.
- Michael http://www.coldwarcreations.com ng > characteristics depending on ambient light (ie how much they are pre- > ionized). If I try to light up two lamps that share an anode, unless I > have my desk lamp on, one of the lamps will fail to light for a second > or so. I can actually control the activity of the lamps with a low- > medium power (~15mW) blu-ray laser (high-energy 405nm photons). This -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
