Whoat, sorry about that last post. I made the mistake of trying to post from mobile and apparently failed on the formatting front. Strange considering I didn't change the formatting at all.
On Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 10:06:15 PM UTC-4, scotth wrote: > > First of all, thanks for accepting me to the group! > > I've built a functioning nixie clock that uses a nixie driver to multiplex > all six numbers. Due to my inexperience, I just figured out the resistor > that I needed to drive a single nixie tube at the correct voltage an > current, which landed me at 22kOhms. However, as I'm sure you all know, my > numbers were much dimmer once i got the multiplexed clock working with the > same 22k resistors. Because of this, I decided to check the voltage drop > and current of my nixies and got some numbers that can't be correct, as it > is below the operating specs of the tube. Is it some sort of average or > something? > > I've seen another thread on here where this is mentioned and I learned > that I could get a more accurate reading of voltage and current using a > scope (which I don't have). What I'm wondering is, is there a way to > calculate what the current should be without measuring it? I'm not > horribly dissapointed that the numbers are dimmer than driving a single > tube, but I'd like to make sure I'm operating at the nominal current in > order to maximize my brightness without significantly decreasing the > expected life of the tubes. Any help is greatly appreciated! > > Below is a picture of my anode driving transistor circuit (?) not sure > what the best way to word that is. > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Pw6L5BQQbpU/WTS8TDyz4QI/AAAAAAAAAWs/-k91FOy1jiEE3Dirye3vQ5PH8oK1_ugLwCLcB/s1600/Capture.JPG> > > -- 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/7017e08e-4dc3-4722-af98-0036209d4538%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
