Would be nice if you can get Dalibors collin tubes to work... let us know what we would need to do to make these part of the PV clock... thanks
On Sunday, September 23, 2018 at 6:49:05 PM UTC-5, Edward Van Belkom wrote: > > Grrr! One last time. > > > > Well close to a year ago I started my version of a Michael > Barile SlingBlade clock using PV Electronics R568 Clock kit. Jeff > Walton built a NWTS from Manual Azevedo (sorry for his lost) for me. > > > > Everything went well and I have enjoyed the clock immensely including the > MOD-SIX_Gen V Michael Barile so generously built for me. > > > > I wanted to get Dalibor to send me a couple of his colons unassembled so I > could try to retrofit it to the PV round PCB board's Pete V used in his > kits. Well as of today things are looking good.. Dalibor has sent me the > colons and a few tubes that showed some leakage. He is unbelievable when it > comes to customer service and helping a guy out even without using his > main Zen PC board. I really wanted to use the ZEN board but the 3" more in > length and narrowness just did not fit in the design of the SlingBlade . > > > > Pete V also helped by providing some prints of the main R568 PC board as > what traces to cut if I would need to add the two 66K 1/4W metal film > resistors on the cathode side of the colon's to make it work. > > > > After E-mailing Dalibor quite a few times I think I will be able to fit > the resistors in the colon base. If so this will be an easier mod to do as > I just have to replace R8,R9,R10,R11 270K resistors with some wire jumpers > and plug in the new modified colons. > > > > With my current colons I made, I used a friction fit sleeve out of a nylon > spacer about .250 high that I used to hold the round PCB colon tight to the > black colon base as the flange is on the bottom of the colon base. I will > wrap a few layer of cellophane tape around the base of the colon tube glass > for a friction fit. I will solder the leads to the round PCB colon board > having the nylon spacer go through the leads before soldering. I will wrap > the colon leads one turn around a pencil before soldering so I have enough > length to push down the spacer over the round PCB and have it bottom out on > the colon base using a flat blade screwdriver. > > > > Then I will push the colon glass down into the base about .250 and twist > slightly to align the colon dots to the front. > > > > If anyone has a better idea let me know before the colon's arrive. > > > > Thanks everyone for making this dream possible. > > > > >> -- 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/2438e5cd-cbb4-4857-ad24-c1553dc7fc91%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
