Hi again, thank you all for your ideas. I think I might go for the HV5812 (20 channels) or HV9708 (32 channels) from Supertex, they are both very neat chips indeed, although quite pricy. (I prefer these chips over mere driver chips since they have a shift register built in.)
It is not so easy to get these, are there other sources than Mouser? Best whishes Jens On 15 Feb., 17:40, will <[email protected]> wrote: > Really? Atmel handled my request immediately, no questions asked. Now > I use them exclusively, no PICs or propellers or anything. I've looked > at the microchip and TI sample programs, I seem to remember that > microchip required a corporate email address and TI had nothing useful > available in DIP (it may have been the other way around). > > On Feb 15, 10:32 am, "Neil Stainton" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 09:46 -0800, "will" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Interesting... That's why Atmel is my favorite. > > > I've found Atmel one of the worst. They immediately passed my requests > > to a distributor to handle. > > > I don't bother with samples much, but both Microchip and TI seem to have > > a much better attitude. > > > > On Feb 14, 10:27 am, Adam Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'd just like to add that Supertex is another company that is very > > > > freehanded with the samples. :) Doesn't cost anything to try out their > > > > parts and see what you think. -- 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.
