Re: [neonixie-l] Side Viewing Nixie Tubes -- Which are considered the best aesthetically?

2014-06-21 Thread Quixotic Nixotic
On 21 Jun 2014, at 06:43, Dman777 wrote: Since I am still new at this, I was wondering what the community opinion on which is the biggest and prettiest side viewing nixie tubes. The only one I am really familiar with is the Nixie 12. I vote for GR10J http://youtu.be/fVFsrleA3pw John S --

Re: [neonixie-l] Side Viewing Nixie Tubes -- Which are considered the best aesthetically?

2014-06-21 Thread gregeb...@hotmail.com
IN-18 tubes are the largest readily-available tubes, and they have properly-formed '2' and '5' numerals. Many of the Soviet-era tubes use the same cathode for '2' and '5', hence they dont appear as aesthetic. Now, if you have unlimited money, there was a set of four ZM568 tubes on EBay for

[neonixie-l] ITS1B Clock

2014-06-21 Thread Arne Rossius
Hi, I saw some talk about the ITS1B thyratron indicator in the archives, so I thought I'd share my clock design I did a few months back. I got the tubes from ebay for about 15 Eur each (it looks like they have already doubled in price by now). There is a russian datasheet available for these

[neonixie-l] Re: ITS1B Clock

2014-06-21 Thread Joseph Bento
Your clock is the first practical use I've seen for these tubes. I bought a set of six years ago, if nothing else for their uniqueness. I would be most curious to know what their intended purpose was - why would they design a display tube that had such odd power requirements. Perhaps on

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: ITS1B Clock

2014-06-21 Thread Arne Rossius
Hi, Joseph Bento wrote: Your clock is the first practical use I've seen for these tubes. There is one other guy who built a clock, but as far as I know there are no details or schematics available. Here is his video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULKdAg0mLhQ I would be most curious to know

[neonixie-l] Re: ITS1B Clock

2014-06-21 Thread Dekatron42
Nice clock! Thanks for sharing! I am building a similar clock myself right now and I have read a lot of what the Russian people write about these tubes and there are some small design ideas/changes that they have come up with that differs from your design - I have incorporated these in my

[neonixie-l] Re: Side Viewing Nixie Tubes -- Which are considered the best aesthetically?

2014-06-21 Thread Dman777
Hi, Thanks for the replies but I think I might of gotten my terminology wrong. I mean the non-top tubeslike the Nixie 12. On Saturday, June 21, 2014 12:43:33 AM UTC-5, Dman777 wrote: Since I am still new at this, I was wondering what the community opinion on which is the biggest and

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Side Viewing Nixie Tubes -- Which are considered the best aesthetically?

2014-06-21 Thread Quixotic Nixotic
On 21 Jun 2014, at 17:45, Dman777 wrote: Hi, Thanks for the replies but I think I might of gotten my terminology wrong. I mean the non-top tubeslike the Nixie 12. What is a Nixie 12? John S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups neonixie-l

[neonixie-l] Re: ITS1B Clock

2014-06-21 Thread Terry Kennedy
On Saturday, June 21, 2014 11:18:58 AM UTC-4, Joseph Bento wrote: I would be most curious to know what their intended purpose was - why would they design a display tube that had such odd power requirements. I've seen a low-resolution photograph of a Soviet submarine console that appeared

[neonixie-l] Re: Side Viewing Nixie Tubes -- Which are considered the best aesthetically?

2014-06-21 Thread Dman777
erI mean N-12 :) https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/146bcf38a4e86d4f On Saturday, June 21, 2014 12:43:33 AM UTC-5, Dman777 wrote: Since I am still new at this, I was wondering what the community opinion on which is the biggest and prettiest side viewing nixie tubes. The only

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Side Viewing Nixie Tubes -- Which are considered the best aesthetically?

2014-06-21 Thread Dalibor Farný
N-12 or IN-12? ;-) 2014-06-21 21:03 GMT+02:00 Dman777 darin.hens...@gmail.com: erI mean N-12 :) https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/146bcf38a4e86d4f On Saturday, June 21, 2014 12:43:33 AM UTC-5, Dman777 wrote: Since I am still new at this, I was wondering what the community

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Side Viewing Nixie Tubes -- Which are considered the best aesthetically?

2014-06-21 Thread gregeb...@hotmail.com
OK, top-view tubes. Burroughs tubes are my absolute favorites for their quality and reliability. Even tubes over 50 years old look great. 5092's are frequently available on ebay; there are usually some available as buy-it-now at a higher price. Sockets are readily available. 6091's have the

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: ITS1B Clock

2014-06-21 Thread Charles MacDonald
On 14-06-21 11:38 AM, Arne Rossius wrote: There is also the latching feature of the thyratrons, so you get the advantage of few pins needed for a large display without the disadvantages of actually multiplexing the tubes (flicker, reduced brightness, increased CPU load). That could also be an