Richard- Yes mine is the PV Electronics board. At one point of the build it says to test the voltage and I wasn't getting what the instructions said I should. At that point I put the project down sadly. I boxed it all back up and told myself I'd revisit it later. This was hard for me because I really love these tubes!!!
Bill On Saturday, March 19, 2022 at 9:55:40 PM UTC-7 Richard Scales wrote: > Thank you . I believe that might be the Remote System from PV Electronics > - I have used that elsewhere but for this I wanted to make a compact unit > with all the WiFi, Web Gui, underlighting and other features from the Open > Source 'Prism' design by Ian Sparkes. > > I am pleased with the result, yesterday I made a simple acrylic case for > it - because it is going to take me an age to get anything more interesting > together - I'll post a picture of it when completed - an injustice the the > tubes I know - but better than a bare board sat on my shelf ticking away! > > I have a couple of PV Remote Systems lined up to populate old Australian > Valve Tested units that I acquired - yet another project waiting in the > wings! > > What issues did you have with the main board for the Remote System? I had > a couple of the early ones and had to replace the LM2596-5 on both boards. > Apart from that - rock solid. > > - Richard > > > On Saturday, 19 March 2022 at 12:18:29 UTC Bill Notfaded wrote: > >> Nice clock Richard. I too have collected these tubes. I've been sitting >> on my stock. I know Nick made a clock with these too fairly recently. I >> bought the kit he used and also ordered the dekatron side board for it. I >> ran into some issues with the main board and put project on the back >> burner. I suppose I should dig it out again to troubleshoot some that >> looks great Richard! >> >> Bill >> >> On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 2:34:44 AM UTC-7 Richard Scales wrote: >> >>> I recently came up with a version of the open source Prism design by Ian >>> Sparkes for NL-8091 tubes. >>> >>> The Prism design includes WiFi, NTP Sync, RTC, PIR activation, under >>> tube lighting and web gui. >>> >>> A small board at the rear has the Wemos, 5V supply circuit and level >>> shifters. The main board has two HV5622's and two HV power supply modules >>> to keep things cool. >>> >>> I used MTX-90 thyratrons for the colons which were a little blinky to >>> start with but now seem to have settled down. >>> >>> These are beautiful tubes and the pictures do not do them justice. >>> >>> Now I need to come up with some kind of casing - something I struggle >>> with a lot! >>> >>> - Richard >>> >>> [image: IMG_20220313_115140.jpg] >>> >> -- 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/d604bb9f-a3a1-42c9-a919-35e2d77ed5f2n%40googlegroups.com.
