1. People like to run 'anti-poisoning' routines - cycling rapidly through all digits at full brightness. Other techniques include writing blanking routines that turn off the display when there is no one around to look at it. I remain to be convinced that anti-poising routines work. 2. Later tubes were developed specifically with multiplexing in mind - they will produce a good display with temporary higher currents. Some of this has to do with stopping the glow spreading to the support structure, some with the persistence of the glow between pulses and maybe some with the resilience of the cathodes to the higher current. For example I have seen adverts for tubes like the B5750 that explicitly mention how many digits can be multiplexed.
I don't thing you will need 6xI for this, but something less. Which tubes are you thinking of using? I will try to dig up some links to specific information. -- 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/dd444eea-34ab-4037-8e30-b5e1bd820d2f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
