... and the decimal points could be controlled using a feature of the smart-socket that was originally intended for the underscore character on the B-7971 so to set decimal points on in the 'colon' positions of a string of 6 of these you would need to send '$B7U010100' - assuming that the DP's were on the right of the main character (for example). The underscore is responded to on the next character change so send the underscore command immediately before setting the digits to display - which will set it on for the new digits. What tubes were you thinking of driving? - Richard
On Sunday, 27 June 2021 at 04:14:28 UTC+1 Richard Scales wrote: > The purpose of the smart-socket is really to handle all the 'heavy > lifting' of driving a multi-segment display with transitions and > programmable characters etc. in order to display alpha numeric characters > and symbols using the available segments. It would be entirely possible to > create one that just drives the elements of a standard nixie tube with 0-9 > and decimal points etc though a lot of it's functionality would be > superfluous. > Essentially you would be putting a PIC Microcontroller in front of each > tube so that you could ultimately send a simple string to display the > numbers. > To display '124600' on string of 6 of these you would simply send > '$B7M124600' to the string of smart sockets. Is that the sort of thing you > had in mind? > - Richard > > > > On Saturday, 26 June 2021 at 20:46:02 UTC+1 Dekatron42 wrote: > >> I've looked at the information available for Smartsockets at the >> Groups.io repository but only found information on multi segment tubes like >> B7971 and its brothers, the ZM1350 plus some IV-series of VFD-tubes and one >> for a Numitron - does anyone know if there were any Smartsockets made for >> standard 0-9 Nixies (possibly with decimal points)? >> >> /Martin >> > -- 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/1fbe41e1-9233-45b1-b7c3-b8a60c40ec6bn%40googlegroups.com.
