Thank you Martin and the others that explained that I.C. means Internal Connection. I thought of the 4017 last night and looked up the maximum voltage of 6 volts. I was not sure if that would be enough for reliable switching but apparently it is. Thank you for the Elektor article link, I think the ring counter would be more in keeping with the age of the tube and I will try that. This has saved me a lot of time. I bought other Trochotrons, Dekatrons, a working E1T on a breadboard, Nixies, VFDs, and a Numitron that I intend to make into a "History of Digital Displays" as a single unit with all displays counting together. The Numitron was the first digital display I used in my career as a research technician. Peter
On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 4:18 AM Dekatron42 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ca798e9c-97e4-4662-82f8-e9e7dced09dco%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAFxqQo%2BddXGj4drP0Nf5uxDQnFPsGHA_G%2B-0H%3D1zYE6atPEh4Q%40mail.gmail.com.
