Ronald Dekker at https://www.dos4ever.com/Z550M/Z550M.html has written an article on the development of these. There is also an article in Elektor magazine from 2009 where Ronald shows how to drive them with a CMOS CD4017, have a look here: http://gkdv.se/pub/material/electronics%20magazine%20and%20such/Elector/Elektor%20Magazines%20(upd.%2019-03-05)/2009/12%20US200912.pdf
If you design the powersupply as Philips shows in their datasheet (and Ronald in the Elektor article) you only have to short the starter electrode to the common ground connection (the positive half wave rectified voltage at the diode rectifier) to light that digit up. /Martin On Thursday, 29 October 2020 01:23:14 UTC+1, peter bunge wrote: > > I searched on this tube and found nothing. > Before I spend time designing a circuit to drive it, has any one already > done so? > I don't mean the circuit in the data sheet, I mean a solid state driver > for the ten starter pins. > Ehat does I.C. mean on pin 6? Or is it N/C as in Not Connected? > -- 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/ca798e9c-97e4-4662-82f8-e9e7dced09dco%40googlegroups.com.
