[neonixie-l] Re: Can you ID the nixie tube and board in this Infiniti Europe car ad ?

2011-09-06 Thread Tristan
Are there any Russian end views with real "5" digits? On Sep 7, 12:56 pm, David Forbes wrote: > Russian rectangular end-view tubes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.c

[neonixie-l] Re: Can you ID the nixie tube and board in this Infiniti Europe car ad ?

2011-09-06 Thread Terry S
Nice clear shot of a VFD clock too, also a pretty sexy shot at :30. On Sep 6, 9:16 pm, coggs wrote: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uaPoauZZJM&feature=player_embedded > > At about :10 in. Also a zoom-in at :15 > > (tip of hat to Lady Ada aka adafruit aka Limor Fried's g+ stream) -- You receiv

Re: [neonixie-l] Can you ID the nixie tube and board in this Infiniti Europe car ad ?

2011-09-06 Thread David Forbes
On 9/6/11 7:16 PM, coggs wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uaPoauZZJM&feature=player_embedded At about :10 in. Also a zoom-in at :15 (tip of hat to Lady Ada aka adafruit aka Limor Fried's g+ stream) Russian rectangular end-view tubes. At least they're not Burroughs or National tubes. T

[neonixie-l] Can you ID the nixie tube and board in this Infiniti Europe car ad ?

2011-09-06 Thread coggs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uaPoauZZJM&feature=player_embedded At about :10 in. Also a zoom-in at :15 (tip of hat to Lady Ada aka adafruit aka Limor Fried's g+ stream) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, se

[neonixie-l] Re: Where did everybody go ???

2011-09-06 Thread Terry S
No, you're right -- I haven't gone. I'm talking out of turn. I do know many people who've attended in the past, however, and no longer go for the reasons described. I do have a pretty good, albeit non first hand notion of what it is all about. In any case, I hope you enjoyed it, I'm sure the vide

[neonixie-l] Re: The Eagle tube pin position calculator ULP thingy

2011-09-06 Thread fixitsan
Thanks Bob and Nick, I already had a library called IV-17 Smartsocket' which contained the IV-17 part I created yesterday, but I think the important step I was missing was that my project library needed to be opened already as default directory and then the 'copy to library' command acts as it shou

[neonixie-l] Re: The Eagle tube pin position calculator ULP thingy

2011-09-06 Thread coggs
I will reiterate what Nick said; Make your own library and put it it in your %HOME% under \eagle\lbr or some such; Also, make a new subdir for each new project. And you probably figured out that the .sch and .brd files need to have exactly the same name. General process I use for making a new part

[neonixie-l] Re: The Eagle tube pin position calculator ULP thingy

2011-09-06 Thread Nick
Don't modify the Eagle standard (as in "distributed") libraries - they are potentially over-written with every new release - create your own library, say, "fixitsan.lib", and put all your bits in there. I do this for pretty much every part I use - there are quite a few "interesting" things in the

[neonixie-l] Re: The Eagle tube pin position calculator ULP thingy

2011-09-06 Thread fixitsan
Thanks Nick. That has helped with me creating a new IV-17 tube component from scratch. Now, I am trying to create a new component in the Supertex library for the HV5812, which is a wide bodied 28 pin dil package. I've opened the Supertex library, selected 'New' and can't seem to bring in the DIL o

[neonixie-l] Re: Soldering the wire leads on a IN-14

2011-09-06 Thread Nick
On Sep 6, 7:12 am, "Tidak Ada" wrote: > The pneumatic tools make me jelous... I have a metcal MX-DS1 desoldering tool - they are good, but only to a point... I actually use mine to remove the bulk of the solder on a joint and then use Soder-Wick to really clean up the hole/pad. I find that the va