Sorry Benoit - I completely missed the point of your original query. Yes, SP-252 Smart Sockets 'R' us! The SP-252 has in fact got two actual digits in each physical display so my solution was to make the original smart socket design as small as possible and use two of them per display. Accordingly, I have a socket for the actual display into which two of my smart socket PCB's plug. These in turn plug in to a back plane PCB which carries the power supplies and micro controller. My design is for 12 digits using 6 x SP-252 displays and it shows time, date, temp, pressure, humidity and one of 10 user defined strings which are all configurable from a web-gui. The clock syncs time via NTP.
[image: RNpic.jpg] Please send me a PM if you have any queries or are interested in a kit for this design. - Richard On Saturday, 21 December 2024 at 05:59:50 UTC Richard Scales wrote: > +1 for the Smart Socket group - it could do with a surge in activity! > I have made smart sockets for B-5971, B-7971, ZM1350, SP-101, SP-252 and > some EL displays. > I am currently constructing a B-7971 based device and am deliberating on > the number of tubes to use. I'd love to make it 12 but I think that would > be cumbersome, not to mention $£$£$£$£$£$£$£! > Yes, the with the UDC part of the Smart Socket you can define any > character to be made up from the available segments of your target display > device. > - Richard > > > On Friday, 20 December 2024 at 17:39:21 UTC Mac Doktor wrote: > >> On Dec 20, 2024, at 5:50 AM, Benoit Tourret <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Do you know if there is an equivalent of the SmartSocket for a IV-4 / >> IV-17 vfd tube ? >> >> >> Yes but I don't know how complete the software is. It's been a while >> since I looked at it. The surface mount parts scared me off. You should >> join the Smartsockets group: >> >> https://groups.io/g/smartsockets/ >> >> >> I have eighteen IV-14s. Sixteen would look fabulous. I also have four >> 5971s. Hmm... >> >> >> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH >> "The Mac Doctor" >> >> https://www.astarcloseup.com >> >> "I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member."—Groucho Marx >> >> -- 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, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/4db2ed0b-adec-4822-8f49-dbabbda2b268n%40googlegroups.com.
