Re: [neonixie-l] Strobotron

2014-03-09 Thread Nick
On Saturday, 8 March 2014 21:52:38 UTC, Nixcited delighted wrote: > > Great work, as always. > > I love this diagram. Now why can't I do layouts like that? I'd never make > a mistake ever again. > I know you aren't a Windows man, John, but I find that Visio is a great tool for doing layouts -

Re: [neonixie-l] Strobotron

2014-03-09 Thread Instrument Resources of America
"Should be" is a bit of an understatement. LOL. There MUST be a center tap or it will NOT work. Ira. On 3/9/2014 7:33 PM, John Rehwinkel wrote: I'm wondering if the missing center tap connection is internal to the transformer, not brought out external to the transformer, and therefore not

Re: [neonixie-l] Strobotron

2014-03-09 Thread John Rehwinkel
> I'm wondering if the missing center tap connection is internal to the > transformer, not brought out external to the transformer, and therefore not > shown on either the schematic, or wiring diagrams?? It would not surprise me, > although I would think that they should have shown it anyway. I

Re: [neonixie-l] Strobotron

2014-03-09 Thread Instrument Resources of America
I'm wondering if the missing center tap connection is internal to the transformer, not brought out external to the transformer, and therefore not shown on either the schematic, or wiring diagrams?? It would not surprise me, although I would think that they should have shown it anyway.Ira.

Re: [neonixie-l] Strobotron

2014-03-09 Thread Instrument Resources of America
This NSP1 has equivalents, (other numbers), which are as follows, SN4, 1D21, 631P1, CV220, R4100, and R4101. The 631P1 and the SN4 are usually quite plentiful on Ebay. Ira. On 3/9/2014 11:25 AM, Grahame Marsh wrote: Part of my interest was building something all-valve/tube. As al

Re: [neonixie-l] Strobotron

2014-03-09 Thread John Rehwinkel
> NSP1 Ebay item 261169937643 - listed in the blurb as a "great audio tube" > hmm.. Crisp glowing highs? > A photo of (or link to) the older strobotach you have would be of interest; a > google seach only turned up the modern digital versions that I could > recognise. I took a few picture

Re: [neonixie-l] Strobotron

2014-03-09 Thread Grahame Marsh
Part of my interest was building something all-valve/tube. As always with this sort of circuit the inefficiency of the rectifier is appalling. But a microcontrolled version is on the agenda as the tubes do turn up on ebay. The twin triode multivibrator is a bit eratic and can be hard to se

Re: [neonixie-l] Strobotron

2014-03-09 Thread NeonJohn
Nifty. I have two of the general radio Strobotachs that used the neon tubes. I'm reversing direction on one. I'm putting solid state internals in it with a microprocessor to read the big pot and set the speed. That will get rid of the drift that plagues this model. Best part is, I can fit the