Yes, it feels good to push down the 26 pin Trochotrons on those sockets, but the force needed is quite a lot, but not more than new original sockets. Soldering all of the wires however is a different story as it takes a lot of time (just as with original sockets).
I've tried those female jumper cables popular for Arduino projects, where a female contact is crimped onto the end of a cable and a male (or female) contact is crimped on the other end, but the quality is quite poor on those, I've had several contacts fall off without even pulling on them. So before I would use those I would check each and every cable pulling on the contacts. What you don't get with those is a proper socket that you can screw onto something, you just get a lot of loose wires and a loose tube. Unfortunately the contact part is too high up into the plastic sleeve that you can't use them on the other side of a single PCB as the pins are very short on the Trochotrons (Dekatrons like the Z572S have longer pins, but the GSA10G has too short pins). One thing most sellers of the "Nixie pins" I used for the socket didn't say is that the thin pin which you can solder onto a PCB is not centered on the cheaper ones, it is slightly off to the side so you'll have to turn all pins in the holes to get the correct diameter, or bend each pin slightly so that the pin gets centered. The wider part of the pin just below the widest part is centered on all that I bought. /Martin On Saturday, 27 June 2015 09:30:52 UTC+2, johnk wrote: > > They look beautiful - I bet you 'feel good' when treating your Trochos > so well ! I usually resort to pushing "blue links" onto tube pins when > experimenting. [Blue links - common name for those rolls of wire with a > sleeved connector pin crimped on every few inches. I first ran across them > jumpering backplanes of DG computers.] > > John Kaesehagen > Australia > -- 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/846ebd73-b640-48f3-afcd-0aed32979f54%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
