Ronald Dekker also has an article on Ring counters too: https://www.dos4ever.com/ring/ring.html if you want to know more about them - circuits with neon tubes and semiconductors are shown and explained, even driving Nixies.
/Martin On Thursday, 29 October 2020 14:52:01 UTC+1, peter bunge wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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/5e54f3a8-3b85-433a-843a-5d87b1838765o%40googlegroups.com.
