> I am a new member. Quick background on me, I am a 29 year old engineering > student looking to learn more about electronics.
Excellent! Welcome aboard! > So I picked up Threeneuron's nixie clock kit on ebay. I am really enjoying > putting it together and I was considering building a PCB to mount all of the > nixies. Looking at the given schematic it seems like it should be fairly > straightforward. Yeah, as your schematic illustrates, nixie tube boards aren't very difficult. > Without using a board, looks like it would be a real rats nest. Was just > wondering if anyone could help me out with the board. I have looked at a few > "on demand" PCB manufacturers that offer their own software and none of them > had any information on the IN-8 tubes. Most of that software is nasty DOS-only stuff that locks you into those vendors. > By the way I also ordered the LED bases for IN-8 tubes from the Nocrotec Shop > on ebay. So if there were some way I could integrate all of that into a > printed board that would be excellent! I just need some help! Hopefully > someone here has done it before.... Schematic and a pic of the LED bases > attached. I design boards occasionally for various projects. I happen to use Eagle, which some board vendors accept directly, otherwise it can output industry-standard Gerber files which will work with the vast majority of vendors. I've even designed boards for IN-8 tubes (I created a custom part myself, as this design needed to fit certain specific parameters). If I can get the specifications for the Nocrotec sockets, I can make a custom part for them too. I've appended one of my IN-8 board designs to illustrate how my work tends to look. It's all hand routed, and an ordinary low-cost 2-layer board that doesn't use any tight spacings or fine wires that would make it more difficult or expensive to manufacture. It actually goes into a widget with 8 tubes, which uses two of these boards side by side (via the connectors on the ends), which gives even tube spacing when plugged together. It did it this way, because it's often cheaper to produce several small boards than one big one (for various reasons). It does have one of the T joints that Terry warns about - my bad. - 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/254A2A01-B850-425F-A8BA-FA18605969B2%40mac.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
