When I said this worked well, I had only tried this on one lamp, and it blanked that one nicely. Now I tried adding the resistors on all the lamps. This works fine for the lamps, but it's causing problems in the nixies; parts of the anodes and/or cathodes are glowing where they shouldn't be.
On Saturday, September 8, 2012 2:29:30 PM UTC-4, threeneurons wrote: > > A simple way, is to bypass the leakage. Tack a 470K resistor across each > neon bulb. > > It only takes a few 10's of microamps, to make it glow a little. With a > 470K resistor, there needs to be at least 140uA, before the voltage gets > high enough (65V) to even begin to start glowing. If there still is some > glowing, then it may be a ghosting issue, someone else mentioned. But, if > its ghosting, you should also see it at the nixies. > > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/RoZpajV97RwJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
