Just wanted to put a PSA out there for anyone planning on building a PV electronics nixie clock kit.
I recieved my kit for an "elite" clock recently, and inspecting the tube driver board revealed some poor soldering of the 44-QPF HV5622 drivers. One chip had a solder bridge between two legs, the other was not soldered on square with the pads. Now, if you have hot air like I did, you will be able to rework the chips off the board, dress the pads, and resolder them correctly. If you don't, or are not comfortable with fine pitch surface mount soldering, this could spell trouble. Just something to keep an eye out for. I will let PV know so that this hopefully does not occur moving forward. -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6033a321-94f5-4c45-9b2b-9a219eb0d646%40googlegroups.com.
