> It's a future project of mine, but I will warn you that E-L displays have a > very short lifespan, roughly 500 hours. Definitely not for an always-on > clock. They also require an A-C driving waveform, and definitely NOT a > square-wave. Basically, they use capacitive current (i=Cdv/dt). I will likely > use a triangular wave, which has a constant dv/dt.
They take over a hundred volts too. It's easy enough to get a sine wave like that with a Royer circuit with a high step-up ratio, but how do you get a triangular wave of over a hundred volts? - John -- 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/0D4E5BED-0D01-4D51-B08C-3C062C09A941%40mac.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
