Photos please! I absolutely love the idea!! I wish I owned a PV544 (or a PV444 with split windows).
/Martin On Saturday, 13 May 2023 at 19:32:46 UTC+2 David Forbes wrote: > I built a Nixie tube instrument panel for my Corvair a couple of years > ago. It's a big PC board with a couple dozen 4998 and 5870 tubes, with a > separate control box. It worked very well (no vibration problems or > anything), so I transferred it into my Volvo 544 shortly after I reacquired > the car last year. It's working well in there too, but I'd like to > rearrange the gauges to fit the car's instrument cluster. > To this end, I'm redesigning it to be modular instead of a monolithic > board shaped to fit the car. Each gauge is a little PC board with an HV66 > driver and SPI daisy chain ribbon connectors. > The plan is to be able to position the modules in the original cluster > housing as best fits the car. The software is going to have a header file > that's customized to the car. Trim pots on the box allow in-use calibration > of those parameters that need it, such as speedometer and temperature. > Do any of you with old cars think you'd be interested in this? > > -- 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/8d470c71-b7f0-4f61-8366-fabfb27f096dn%40googlegroups.com.
