I was wondering if I could use the same circuit to drive any Nixies tube. It seemed a reasonable assumption, but I didn't want to mess up any of my other tubes. Then I remembered that I had an IN-16 that was missing its anode wire (it is also missing the wire for the digit 4 as you will see). So I wired it up in place of the GI-10 and, what do you know? It worked.
So I guess that this circuit could be considered a more general Nixie circuit than the regular one that requires an anode. And now that I am writing this, I am reminded that I was trying to figure out a universal adapter for a one-tube-clock that would allow me to plug in an arbitrary tube that uses flying leads rather than pins - I could modify the software to map digits to pins. The sticking point I had was that I had to treat the anode pin differently than all of the other pins. With this design, I don't. I think I might try that (or at least add it to the list of projects I need to get around to at some point). Anyway. Enough ramblings. Here is the video that you have all been waiting for - a Proof of Concept if you will: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu9wi_Ol6n0 -- 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/d3620abc-4deb-44e3-b1cd-bb926ea1bd19%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
