HI! Thanks for the quick reply! I also thought I'd need to find over 30W so 
that's good news. Do you think something like THAT 
<https://www.ebay.com/itm/Filter-Power-Supply-Magic-Eye-High-Voltage-DC100-380V-12V-Nixie-Tube-Filament-6V/172730735239?epid=22003184350&hash=item28378dda87:g:lucAAOSwVJhZQULy>
 is 
enough for all 18 tubes?

W dniu środa, 21 marca 2018 21:28:54 UTC+1 użytkownik Paul Andrews napisał:
>
> My power calculation is wrong! Not all that voltage drops across the 
> resistor, so I think it is more like 10 watts - I new I should have taken 
> more time!
>
> On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 4:21:48 PM UTC-4, Paul Andrews wrote:
>>
>> I hadn't seen that paper before. Nice find.
>>
>> There are several power supplies that will give you 150V, seatch for 
>> adjustable nixie power supplies. But as the paper says, this is a 
>> current-driven device, so as long as you limit the current through each 
>> tube, you can go higher. If you go higher, you will need to increase the 
>> value of the current-limiting resistor to keep the current the same.
>>
>> The limit for 18 tubes is the power. Your power supply needs to be able 
>> to provide 150*.012*18 (i.e. 33) watts without collapsing.
>>
>> Or you could use multiple power supplies, each powering a group of tubes.
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 3:52:45 PM UTC-4, Mikołaj Walkowiak wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone! I'm doing project for college and I've decided to make 
>>> an audio visualiser using IN-9's. The problem is I don't have any idea how 
>>> to power them. I'd like to have 18 tubes for different sound frequenties 
>>> and I'll be using stm34 to calculate the value each tube should show..
>>>
>>> Now, I know I need 140v and 0 - ~~12 mA for 1 tube but that's all I know 
>>> honestly. I think I'll use something like the 0-offset driver found in 
>>> HERE <https://www.die-wuestens.de/rd/IN9-2.pdf> controled by PWM of my 
>>> uC but I honestly have no idea how to power them. Is 140V(or 150V? 
>>> everywhere except there it says 140V) enough even for 18 tubes? If yes is 
>>> it possible to make this kind of supply myself as I can't find anything 
>>> reasonable price-wise with 140V. Do I need to consider anything else?
>>>
>>

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