Am I the only one who thinks the slot machine effect is much nicer to see than this alternative? However, I am on-board if this actually helps longevity. The slot machine effect is usually what gets non-nixie folks excited about the display. It's the "blinky-lights gets the attention" effect. :-)
On Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 11:48:24 AM UTC-5, Spirit wrote: > > While designing my own clock, I decided to investigate the cathode > poisoning prevention methods utilized by most clocks, and I discovered that > there's room to improve and experiment. > Here's a short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skBwGGQ58MI > If you can't or don't want to watch: Switching between cathodes with a > delay of 1-2 milliseconds is going to provide the same cleaning effect as > the "slot machine", except without the extreme flicker which may be > annoying to some. > > As for my design - it's two HV5522s in the PLCC package connected to an > ESP8266(for driving the HV5522s the 3v3 signals are shifted to 5 - that > works up to a supply of 12.9V) and Yan's NCH6100HV boost board. > > It would be interesting to see what everyone here thinks. > -- 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/2000f583-c4d7-4a94-9ab2-e98bd4caf008%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
