Voltage is irrelevant, other than just being high enough to initiate ionization. These are not modern digital logic ICs. Things are not that precise. This is kit, so there are anode current limiting resistors preventing excess current. I don't know your electronics background, but voltage and current are two different things. Voltage is "pressure", and current is electron flow rate. You need pressure, for flow, so they are related but different. Look at nixie basics:
<https://threeneurons.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/nixie-basics.gif> My nixie page <https://threeneurons.wordpress.com/nixie-power-supply/> What you are reading on its datasheet, is probably the maintaining voltage. Nixies are much like LEDs, as its a "current" device, as in electrical current. The voltage drop (potential difference) finds its own value. For LEDs its ~1.8V for red, ~3V for blue, and between 130 to 150V for a nixie. The difference, however, other than voltage magnitude, is that an LED plateaus at its voltage, where you need to reach a much higher "strike voltage", with a nixie, and once it "strikes" (ionizes), the voltage across the nixie drops, to its maintain (or sustain) voltage. A simple resistor works fine in keeping excess current from damaging either an LED or nixie. (see drawing). Yes, you do need to know math. Get over it, and learn. As far as glowing wires. I assume the nixies are running in the kit. If not, are you using a limiting resistor ? Get a 170VDC source, or more, and run the individual numerals over time (hours, days). This may just be "sleeping sickness", which is a temporary form of cathode poisoning. Start with one numeral, and let it run until, the numeral fully illuminates. Then go to the next numeral, until all 10 numerals (0-9) glow properly. Again remember to include the limiting anode resistor, in the path. (see drawing). On Thursday, November 24, 2016 at 6:18:08 AM UTC-8, BooBooBeGone wrote: > > Found a datasheet online, stating that fire voltage for the Z566 is 150v > Max voltage 170v > > Since i have 170V at the moment, maybe i shoul try to set it at around > 160V? > -- 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/8d3347af-a84a-4d5a-8854-d244dee7ca41%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
