[neonixie-l] In Newy York (New Jersey) for the next two weeks...

2015-03-11 Thread Nick
I'm in New York (actually, New Jersey) for the next two weeks... ...any surplus stores or good radio places I should visit? I have a car... ...mostly, I'll be living in a stonking great data centre (for the full 14 days, including weekends), but the engineers I'm taking over there don't really

Re: [neonixie-l] In Newy York (New Jersey) for the next two weeks...

2015-03-11 Thread David Speck MD
Nick, For the 8 years I lived in NYC (1975 - 83), the place to go was Canal Street, west of the #6 train. There used to be about 7 or 8 places with electronic surplus. Regrettably, I haven't been back since then. I hear the area has been gentrified to a large extent, but a quick Google

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Multiplexing noise

2015-03-11 Thread Dekatron42
Pete, will the cascode circuit work properly as a cathode driver if you use for instance a 74HCT42 or a 74HCT138 to drive the transistor (they both have inverted outputs going low when selected), using the collector of the transistor to drive the cathode of a Nixie? /Martin -- You received