I was thinking of this as a buy for the tube value alone. Then give those tubes to Michael Barile who would make me a fantastic Barile/Thomas Nixisat derived clock or clocks with those tubes.
On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:38 PM, MichaelB <[email protected]> wrote: > "Seems silly to me to save a few dollars by multiplexing when the tubes are > so costly." My thoughts exactly! > > On Friday, September 5, 2014 12:10:27 PM UTC-7, gregebert wrote: > Yep, thought so, sir Nick. Seems a shame to drive these beauties any any > other way than direct drive. > > Judging by the photos on Ebay, which show rather dim digits, I would guess > the tubes are multiplexed at their rated-current, which reduces brightness vs > direct-drive. > I definitely would not boost the current to compensate for this; much safer > to make a new clock with direct-drive. > > Seems silly to me to save a few dollars by multiplexing when the tubes are so > costly. > > > 3500 euros.....definitely not in my budget even if I were to sell the other 6 > tubes and attempt to justify it as a wedding-anniversary gift > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4ff2e672-2987-48cd-b396-c47e728ded79%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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