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? >> >> -- 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/290b3c09-4ab6-4236-8394-99a70175e0b5n%40googlegroups.com.
