Clever. One thing I was thinking of doing was putting a small ~400nm LED under the tubes and turning it on for a few microseconds while the tube started up, but your way is more sensible.
On Jan 23, 9:53 am, "M.J.Sangster" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 [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.
