Around 165, can’t remember exactly, but enough so as not to sacrifice tube brightness and yes you could have a bad cap.
On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 10:49:05 AM UTC-7, Kiran Otter wrote: > > MichaelB, what did you lower the voltage to? And I did replace C6. Could > I have a bad cap? I had a hell of a time finding just one; got it shipped > free from RS for for like a dollar. > > On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 12:46:24 PM UTC-4, MichaelB wrote: >> >> I have had this same issue with 3 of Jonas' clocks and each time the fix >> has been a combination of replacing C6 and a dropping the voltage a bit to >> keep the temperature down on that VREG. I also ended up changing the design >> of my enclosed cases to allow better cooling internally and this seemed to >> fix the issue. These clocks all seem to do this when there is inadequate >> cooling in an enclosed case. >> >> -- 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/8346d9f8-78d7-4414-9366-86bf3f9b56ed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
