If you use the pins sold on Ebay which have a wider middle piece to secure them inside DSUB contacts you can also do a sandwich design with at least three pieces of PCB on top of each other where the middle layer has a somewhat bigger hole to accommodate the wider piece and the top and bottom pieces have smaller holes so that the pins doesn't fall out. You can the solder flexible wires to the pins underneath and easily push the Nicie down onto the pins with as little stress as on other sockets. If you use sockets you should solder flexible wires to keep the flexing of the pins, using to hard wires will not let them flex enough.
I've use the sandwich design successfully on 26 & 27 pin Trochotron / Dekatron sockets, it takes some time to solder the wires to the pins but you get flexible pins that work like a charm. I also made a design where I used more PCB layers on top so the the upper part of the pin was hidden completely so that it was easier to push down the Trochotrons (BX-1000 & BX2004) onto the pins, this also protects the pins from bending to much when the tube is pressed down on top of the pins. I tried to attach photos but it didn't work right now for some reason. /Martin -- 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/52e5592b-a293-435f-85fa-340896985efa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
