I absolutely love that video you linked! Thanks. On Friday, 8 February 2013 15:12:21 UTC, Nixcited delighted wrote: > > On 8 Feb 2013, at 13:22, John Rehwinkel wrote: > > >> You are multiplexing this display on a "one of six" basis. That means > each nixie tube is only going to see juice for maybe 15% of the time. Even > if you overdrive them, they will be on the dimmer end of their possible > light output, and I would imagine that for your application nice, bright > displays are somethiung of a prerequisite. You might want to consider > designing the mux to be two sets of "one of three". > > > > Unfortunately, this is what the pinball machine provides to the display > - BCD code for the current digit, and six (or seven) digit select lines. > Getting around this > > would require a great deal more in the way of semiconductors. > > > > Interestingly, I was thinking of doing the same mod to my Xenon. > > I had a Xenon at one time. Suzanne Ciani having a synthesised orgasm when > you hit the bumpers was great fun. You can see and hear how she did it at: > http://youtu.be/5_dZqjlM430. > > Zitt is wrong in saying Xenon had nixies instead of the usual VDF > displays. Bally never used VFDs (but Gottlieb did). Xenon never had any > nixie tubes either, nor did any US production pinball machine. The French > Rally Plays are the only nixie tubed pinball machines. Maybe Zitt > remembered a mod someone else had already done? > > Xenon used the same flat style of planar neon displays all Ballys had, > from the prototype Bow and Arrow in 1974 until they sold out to Midway, a > subsidiary of Williams, in 1991, Blackwater being the last Bally. > > I'll get my anorak, > > John S
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