when it was in the corvair....

https://hackaday.com/2022/02/18/retro-future-nixie-corvair-instrument-panel/


On Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 1:04:36 PM UTC-7 Dekatron42 wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>

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