I have a few of these boards and have just started to look at how they are 
wired. Mine had small boards mounted on the back which I have removed.

They are wired as follows:


   - All Cathodes to ground.
   - All Anodes to +Volts via a series resistor
   - Each group of tubes forming segments have the Grid held on a potential 
   divider made up of a 1M and 3M resistor.

My understanding is that the thing will need 240V DC (which I am currently 
researching) and then the Grids can be controlled to light each segment (or 
not).

That's as far as I have got,

It seems that generating 240VDC is the hardest part of all this - A 
transformer with 170V secondary and sufficient VA, Bridge Rectifier and 
Smoothing cap is the old-school method - which does provide some isolation.

Is there a better way?

- Richard


On Tuesday, 13 October 2020 14:35:39 UTC+1, celzey11 wrote:
>
> Unfortunately I haven't tried to power it up yet, moving and starting a 
> new job took all my free time. Unfortunately one of the 4 I received had a 
> few cracked tubes, but the seller is sending me some IN-28s to replace them 
> with. Can't wait to see it light up though. 
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 9:25 AM Bill Notfaded <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>>
>> Has anyone tried driving this other version of these vs. the type that 
>> Paul has?  I assume these from Van are all the same.  It looks like they 
>> have some wires connected to a line of pins that plugged into something at 
>> one point?  It looks like there are resistors for each tube on the board 
>> already.  There are 23 tubes on each board.  Has anyone figured out the pin 
>> out on the connector yet?
>> On Sunday, August 2, 2020 at 5:58:49 AM UTC-7 celzey11 wrote:
>>
>>> Tempted to buy a few...
>>
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