Re: [neonixie-l] New soldering station recommendations...

2020-12-30 Thread gregebert
Yes, that's the one. Works great; just be sure to gently break it in by slowly increasing the temperature to burn-off the manufacturing residue, and ALWAYS let it cool-down (fan will shut off automatically) before you power-down. It came with 3 nozzles, and I use the small one. It's

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Cheapest 6-digit edge lit clock so far

2020-12-30 Thread Yohan Park
Thanks for posting the link to the manual On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 8:11:46 PM UTC+1 dixter wrote: > incase you can't see the manual... Banggood list it too but couldn't find > the manual there... > the link for download >

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Cheapest 6-digit edge lit clock so far

2020-12-30 Thread Yohan Park
Exactly what I thought I'm not going to solder over 150 SMD parts to save only $5 On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 7:09:29 PM UTC+1 H. Carl Ott wrote: > I'm very tempted to order in one of these just to see how many of the > plastic frame pieces arrive intact, and not shattered. > If you

Re: [neonixie-l] New soldering station recommendations...

2020-12-30 Thread Jon Jackson
Is it the CO-Z 858D Rework Station ?? On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 11:35 AM gregebert wrote: > Reviving this thread... > > I've spent some of the holiday season using hot-air soldering for > surface-mount devices, and the results are far superior to hand-soldering. > With good solder paste (I'm

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Cheapest 6-digit edge lit clock so far

2020-12-30 Thread dixter
incase you can't see the manual... Banggood list it too but couldn't find the manual there... the link for download https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Usx9toq8RxTBTbHdNiELmnl6TB7ykVim/view On Wednesday, December 30, 2020 at 12:26:16 PM UTC-6 David Pye wrote: > This one is chasing the Nixie

Re: [neonixie-l] New soldering station recommendations...

2020-12-30 Thread gregebert
Reviving this thread... I've spent some of the holiday season using hot-air soldering for surface-mount devices, and the results are far superior to hand-soldering. With good solder paste (I'm using ChipQuick 63/37; there are several other brands) and placing small dabs on solder pads with the

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Cheapest 6-digit edge lit clock so far

2020-12-30 Thread David Pye
This one is chasing the Nixie appearance further...

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Cheapest 6-digit edge lit clock so far

2020-12-30 Thread David Pye
I might give it a go too. Looks like an stm32 so an opportunity to make some open source fw David On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, 18:09 H. Carl Ott, wrote: > I'm very tempted to order in one of these just to see how many of the > plastic frame pieces arrive intact, and not shattered. > > If you do

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Cheapest 6-digit edge lit clock so far

2020-12-30 Thread H. Carl Ott
I'm very tempted to order in one of these just to see how many of the plastic frame pieces arrive intact, and not shattered. If you do order one, pay the extra few bucks and avoid having to solder all those WS2812Bs. Unless you are into that sort of thing. carl

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Cheapest 6-digit edge lit clock so far

2020-12-30 Thread David Pye
It's the same clock from the original AliExpress link, turned on its side David On Wed, 30 Dec 2020, 16:43 dixter, wrote: > What is the site to purchase the music spectrum mode clock... > > On Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 4:25:10 PM UTC-6 w...@kitsunegari.net > wrote: > >> Wow, this thing is

[neonixie-l] Re: Cheapest 6-digit edge lit clock so far

2020-12-30 Thread dixter
What is the site to purchase the music spectrum mode clock... On Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 4:25:10 PM UTC-6 w...@kitsunegari.net wrote: > Wow, this thing is even more feature packed than I thought. It even has > voice control :D > And I see now that the top also functions as an audio