Hi and welcome to the group. If you are in the UK, I can help you out with tubes etc. but it wouldn't be economic otherwise.
Whole bunches of designs out there but with an EE background, I'm sure a simple standard logic or uP-based solution could be built for 20 bucks ex-tubes on perf board or whatever. Using IN-14s or -16s, you should get them for USD 10-15 or so for 4, and most of the rest can be obtained from salvaged parts - only a few "speciality" parts - 1 inductor (about 100 to 220uH), 1 fast diode (UF4007 or similar), a reasonable commodity HV FET (like an IRF730A or similar) and a small fairly low ESR HV capacitor (between 1 & 3.3uF, 200V - use 2 or more 1uF in parallel to drop the overall ESR cheaply) It might be interesting to see just how cheaply a 4-digit clock can be built, rather than the rather expensive stuff the most of us churn out... ! Cheers Nick On Sep 28, 4:40 pm, mike <logan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All > My name is Mike and I have two sons, Lucian 9 and Julian 6 and we > love Nixie tubes. I have some what of an electronics background and I > think it would be great if me and my boys could build a clock that > also has indoor/outdoor temperature sensors. We'd like to use a tube > like an IN-14. > > Were on a fixed income and I was figuring I could get some advice > about suppliers from this board. I need a supplier that will let me > buy $20-30 worth of parts at a time until I have all the parts > together. I also figured that there a probably a lot of people on > this board who have a lot of near ideas. > > I know my boys are going to love this. THey love making things with > daddy. RIght now I have $20 in Ebay bucks to spend on this project, > what should I spend it on? > > Thanks a lot in advance for any help you can give > > Mike, Lucian and Julian -- 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.
