My bad, sorry I really should have checked the voltage before posting this!
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Spencer W <[email protected]> wrote: > I think from the datasheet, > http://www.adafruit.com/datasheets/tpic6b595.pdf , it looks like the max > is 50 volts. Good for vfd's. :) only my guess though > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 16, 2012, at 6:18 PM, William Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all- > > I had a question on driving nixies using something other than 74141s. > Would any driver that can sink higher currents work ok? Am I right in > assuming I can use a driver that sinks with nixies because the cathodes are > connected to ground when not floating? > > For example, would this one work to use as a shift register? I realize I > won't need one for my current project that already has 74141s wired into > the circuit, but was thinking ahead to building a clock from scratch. > > "Add a bunch of high-power outputs to a microcontroller system with > chainable shift registers. These chips take a serial input (SPI) of 1 byte > (8 bits) and then output those digital bits onto 8 pins. You can chain them > together so putting three in a row with the serial output of one plugged > into the serial input of another to make 3 x 8 = 24 digital outputs. You > can chain pretty much as many as you want. This makes it easy to control a > lot of outputs like LEDs from only 3 digital microcontroller pins. > > This item contains *one TPIC6B595 chip*! These chips similarly to the > more well known 7HC595s but they are high power drains, able to sink 150mA > per pin." > > https://www.adafruit.com/products/457 > > As always thanks to the list for your advice and info. > > -Dylan > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/GyQxhBmCTPQJ. > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
