Boy did I buy myself into a hole with this one! I had just about got to grips with Nixie tubes, now I have a whole new technology to learn; I'm sure a lot of the folks on this list know the ins and outs of triodes - I'm not one of them! I will get there eventually though.
Apologies if what follows seems impossibly naive. That's because it is! It seems there is no getting away from driving the anode at 50V. I'm currently trying to figure out how I can do that given what I have on hand, before I order the parts I need to build an actual 50V supply. Basically buying a bunch of 9V batteries or making a simple voltage divider for one of my nixie power supplies. I am a little concerned about limiting the current. Do I have to or will it just draw the current it needs? I'm also slowly wrapping my head around -Ve voltages. I think I am gathering that the filament is held at a constant voltage and then you tweak the grid voltage to make it +Ve or -Ve with respect to that. Or maybe the other way around. I've not quite got that straight yet! Most of what I can find on the web wants to make oscillators or amplifiers or VU meters out of these. All of which sounds like fun, but right now I just want to light one up! -- 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/2b70b323-a598-4c85-918b-d691ee2b5927%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
