Hmmm... interesting observation Pete, are you talking about changing R21 or R22 to 10K? I chose 100K because I have them in my NixieNeon clock.
-joe On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:48 AM, petehand <[email protected]> wrote: > Just move R22 etc to the other end of R21 etc, on the base of the PNPs. > Where they are now, those resistors are are doing nothing but wasting > power. When the NPNs turn on they're going to draw 1.6mA and drop 160V > across the 100k resistors R21 etc. You need no more than 3V to turn on the > PNPs, so in theory you could drop the values of R22 etc to 2.2k, but I > suggest 10k is more suitable. 100k is way too high and may as well not be > there. > >> -- > 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/77035e01-fd3f-4085-bc63-83deae194f39%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/77035e01-fd3f-4085-bc63-83deae194f39%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAE%2BVk6MB%3D6AXVDVb5v1rRkHrr0OFeKMq6cQ8MghQaNH0ZFhguQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
