Ian, Yes, I've been looking at the TLC5916N.. and no stock anywhere! I did find TLC5917.. same ship but with short detection I believe. There is sporadic stock available here and there. I'll order some for testing. Do you know if there is a pin equivalent from another manufacturer? Would be nice to have an alternate.
The ESP32 worked really well for my last clock, and I've got a good deal of time invested in the code. To be able to reuse it without too much fuss on another clock is a bonus. Regards, -Moses On Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 6:57:59 AM UTC-8 Ian Sparkes wrote: > You really should try to make the drivers constant current drivers: I used > to do this with TI parts, but they've been out of stock for over a year. > > The TLC5916N drivers are shift registers with constant current drivers > attached - great for this sort of thing. The Numitron clocks I made are > also NTP/WiFi enabled and based on an ESP8266, with linear digit dimming > and a whole bunch of other things (motion sensor, NeoPixel backlights etc). > > The ESP32 is a great platform. Absolutely love working with it, but it's a > bit overkill for this. > > On Thursday, 17 November 2022 at 13:28:14 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > >> Or am I mistaken—Its Ian that’s in…sorry..I’m looking at Emails,that go >> everywhere.Gotto go >> >> Too Neonixe site,next time. >> >> Peter😉 >> >> >> >> *From: *Peter Hall >> *Sent: *Thursday, November 17, 2022 7:06 PM >> *To: *[email protected] >> *Subject: *RE: [neonixie-l] Re: Any interest in IV-9 numitron clock kit? >> >> >> >> If Richard is in-So am I 😊 >> >> Peter..insidiousnixies:Utube >> >> >> >> *From: *'Ian' via neonixie-l >> *Sent: *Thursday, November 17, 2022 5:52 PM >> *To: *[email protected] >> *Subject: *Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Any interest in IV-9 numitron clock kit? >> >> >> I’m in >> >> On 17 Nov 2022, at 04:28, Richard Scales <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have built several numitron kits from nixieclock.biz and am a big fan >> of numitrons, I have only had them running far a couple of years and then >> for only half a day at most. I have heard that their tube life is 'long' >> but have not seen any actual numbers. I have also re-worked the design for >> other numitrons like IV-19 and DTF104B. >> >> >> <RCS_5954.jpg> >> >> - Richard >> >> >> On Wednesday, 16 November 2022 at 22:26:36 UTC [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Hi Everybody, >>> >>> I seem to have enough IV-9 tubes to where I can produce a batch of 100 >>> or so 6 digit numitron clocks. Thinking ESP32 powered like my last one >>> (Thank you to all those who gave suggestions, the kit came out great!). I'm >>> thinking maybe try for a full through-hole solder kit with some shift >>> registers. >>> >>> I know nixies are more popular.. but anyone interested in a numitron >>> clock kit? >>> >>> Oh, one question I do have, anyone have long term experience (ie, >>> years?) running this particular tube? How do they fare? >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> Regards, >>> -Moses >>> >> -- >> 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/421b1cfd-f165-49ad-a63b-1afae649b1ebn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/421b1cfd-f165-49ad-a63b-1afae649b1ebn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> <RCS_5954.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/6975019D-E714-4B91-94DC-878BE396B531%40yahoo.co.uk >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6975019D-E714-4B91-94DC-878BE396B531%40yahoo.co.uk?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/MEYP282MB40755A707FB42B98D0B61076A6069%40MEYP282MB4075.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/MEYP282MB40755A707FB42B98D0B61076A6069%40MEYP282MB4075.AUSP282.PROD.OUTLOOK.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/37c7fc94-5c36-45ce-bdaa-8b8e1222ce09n%40googlegroups.com.
