I think my post was a bit unclear. I AM turning on two at the time x) I have 3 pins controlling 6 nixies. That means one pin turns on 2 nixies at the same time. Each lit nixie is controlled by separate K155ID1 (two muxes in total). Or am I having problems understanding you.. Cheers
On Mar 16, 9:00 pm, Adam Jacobs <[email protected]> wrote: > You could do this.. It's not ideal in my opinion, but as long as you are > careful to never turn on more than one of the paired nixies at a time, > you could get away with multiplexing this way. I would set the anode > resistor at something like 10-15k to start with. > > I think that this looks like a great reason to learn how shift registers > work, though. :) > > -Adam > > On 3/16/2012 12:56 PM, Imbanon wrote: > > > > > > > > > Actually that is exactly what I am doing. I have 3 anode control > > circuits, each controlling 2 nixies. I am doing this because I lack > > digital I/O pins. Should I then change my design to one anode resistor > > per tube? I would still have only 3 anode drivers.. > > > On Mar 16, 8:40 pm, John Rehwinkel<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> And I have to clear out that I have a common anode resistor for 2 > >>> tubes, making a total of 3 anode resistors for all 6 tubes. > >> It seems to me that would only work if you only selected a cathode for one > >> tube at a time. Otherwise (if you tried to light both tubes at once), > >> only one tube would light, pulling the > >> anode end of the resistor down to the maintaining voltage, which would be > >> insufficient > >> to light the second tube (because it is now below the striking voltage). > > >> - John -- 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.
