What about the Flux capacitor? On Sat, May 13, 2023, 4:44 PM J Forbes <jforb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/290b3c09-4ab6-4236-8394-99a70175e0b5n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/290b3c09-4ab6-4236-8394-99a70175e0b5n%40googlegroups.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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAJD4P-iUypWVZ5F8OYYMeu567%3Dez5tfSbO2H_6p1BxP%2BuaEhYw%40mail.gmail.com.
