Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Digit Fading / transition effects using HV566 Blanking

2020-07-23 Thread Richard Scales
Thank you for the confirmation of the 32 bit SPI, Paul had mentioned this to me previously but I had not pursued it as what I had was working - similarly for the handling of the LE line - I noticed no immediately visible difference when moving the dropping of LE to after the SPI Write commands

[neonixie-l] WTB 1pc of IN-14

2020-07-23 Thread celzey11
There's some US sellers on the 'bay -- 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web,

[neonixie-l] WTB 1pc of IN-14

2020-07-23 Thread Huze gmail
I had been waiting three and a half months for 6 PC's of IN14's to arrive from Russia for my first nixie tube clock. They finally showed up today and one of them is broken. The seller packed them poorly... one layer of thin foam paper wrapped around each tube, all 6 tubes side by side sandwiched

Re: [neonixie-l] Neon Pixels!

2020-07-23 Thread 'Grahame Marsh' via neonixie-l
or wait until tomorrow and i will put it on tge dropbox On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 22:56, Nicholas Stock wrote: > Let's try that againmovie was too large.. > > https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPMzuOjdBs/ > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 2:52 PM Nicholas Stock > wrote: > >> Speaking of glutton for

Re: [neonixie-l] Neon Pixels!

2020-07-23 Thread Nicholas Stock
Let's try that againmovie was too large.. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPMzuOjdBs/ On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 2:52 PM Nicholas Stock wrote: > Speaking of glutton for punishment > > A follow on to Grahame's original Trigger tube clockaptly called > 'Neon'...that we're both working

Re: [neonixie-l] Neon Pixels!

2020-07-23 Thread celzey11
Allegedly there's some neon bulbs that actually act as thyratrons that can be used to make large scrolling displays...haven't seen any of those IRL though -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: [neonixie-l] Neon Pixels!

2020-07-23 Thread Joe Croft
Very pretty, but what a glutton for punishment! On Thursday, July 23, 2020 2:13:13 PM CDT martin martin wrote: > Thought the group would like this article > > https://hackaday.io/project/173636-neon-pixels > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[neonixie-l] Re: Neon Pixels!

2020-07-23 Thread gregebert
I certainly didn't expect to see a DCDC converter for each pixel. I have to admire the persistence to build 384 of those to make a display. On Thursday, July 23, 2020 at 12:13:13 PM UTC-7 martin martin wrote: > Thought the group would like this article > >

[neonixie-l] Neon Pixels!

2020-07-23 Thread martin martin
Thought the group would like this article https://hackaday.io/project/173636-neon-pixels -- 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

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: VFD filament resistance when hot/cold?

2020-07-23 Thread David Pye
Presumably you could also use the microcontroller to do so if it has a spare pin, by using a resistor in series with the filament power supply, which is then shorted out by a FET after a predetermined time. Valve amplifiers used to do similar but with a time delay relay. David On Thu, 23 Jul

[neonixie-l] Re: VFD filament resistance when hot/cold?

2020-07-23 Thread ZY
The chip I'm using is TPS54328, which has an adjustable soft start. I'm still building my supply though, so I haven't actually tested it in action yet to see if the soft start actually limits the inrush in any way. On Thursday, 16 July 2020 13:56:47 UTC-4, Paul Andrews wrote: > > What power

[neonixie-l] Re: Digit Fading / transition effects using HV566 Blanking

2020-07-23 Thread Christian Riise Wagner
Richard, I'm using the 32-bit SPI-write for my most recent ESP32 based clock. I'm saving the data for all six tubes and the colons in a single 64-bit variable (uint64_t), so sending out the data can be done with just four lines of code: digitalWrite(SS, LOW); SPI.write32(nixData);