RE: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-11 Thread Tidak Ada
Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! On 2/10/14 2:58 PM, David Forbes wrote: Eric, I have a textbook Digital Logic Circuits or similar that describes it in depth. I will see about scanning it. Here it is - the book is Pulse and Digital Circuits from 1956. I scanned

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-11 Thread yendor3
I seem to remember Morris posting that he had used a Phantastron in something of his?   John K.  - Original Message - From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com To: Cc: Sent:Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:59:49 -0700 Subject:Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished

RE: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-11 Thread yendor3
Sent: maandag 10 februari 2014 22:58 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! Eric, I have a textbook Digital Logic Circuits or similar that describes it in depth. I will see about scanning it. On 2/10/2014 1:51 PM, Tidak Ada wrote

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-11 Thread threeneurons
...@googlegroups.com javascript: To: neoni...@googlegroups.com javascript: Cc: Sent: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:59:49 -0700 Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! On 2/10/2014 12:44 PM, Tidak Ada wrote: Hmm could be, but despite I have heard about it, I am not familiar

RE: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-11 Thread Tidak Ada
. _ From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of threeneurons Sent: dinsdag 11 februari 2014 20:00 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Cc: yend...@internode.on.net Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! Morris used it in his timebase

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-11 Thread Grahame Marsh
*From:* neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *threeneurons *Sent:* dinsdag 11 februari 2014 20:00 *To:* neonixie-l@googlegroups.com *Cc:* yend...@internode.on.net *Subject:* Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! Morris

RE: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread Tidak Ada
@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Rehwinkel Sent: maandag 10 februari 2014 3:54 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! I have a 4MHz TCXO that I have to scle down to 4, 2 ,1, 1/2 and 1/4 Hz. The first stage

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread John Rehwinkel
Concerning thermionic tubes you are right, but my goal is to use only cold cathode tubes, surely not in the last place to keep power consumption low. A divide by 10 counter, even with submini's or Nuvistors consumes a lot of Watts... You're quite right of course. But since you had neglected

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread Dekatron42
...@googlegroups.com javascript: [mailto: neoni...@googlegroups.com javascript:] *On Behalf Of *Dekatron42 *Sent:* maandag 10 februari 2014 13:02 *To:* neoni...@googlegroups.com javascript: *Subject:* Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! Eric, One subminiature thermionic

RE: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread Tidak Ada
Of Dekatron42 Sent: maandag 10 februari 2014 16:22 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! Eric, You could build a phantastron circuit with tubes, similar to the dividing stages used in for instance the Tektronix 180a Time-mark Generator

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread David Forbes
On 2/10/2014 12:44 PM, Tidak Ada wrote: Hmm could be, but despite I have heard about it, I am not familiar with the Phamtastron circuit. Does it deliver a sine or an block/pulse at the output? I have to look for some clear theory. eric Eric, Google does not help with the Phantastron, as

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread Dekatron42
Eric, You can download the HP 521a frequency counter manual here: http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/hp/521a/ which has a description of the Phantastron circuit. You can also download the Tektronix 180a manual here: http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/tek/180a/ and have a look at the circuit diagram

RE: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread Tidak Ada
] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! On 2/10/2014 12:44 PM, Tidak Ada wrote: Hmm could be, but despite I have heard about it, I am not familiar with the Phamtastron circuit. Does it deliver a sine or an block/pulse at the output? I have to look for some clear theory. eric Eric, Google does

RE: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread Tidak Ada
21:33 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! Eric, You can download the HP 521a frequency counter manual here: http://bama.edebris.com/manuals/hp/521a/ which has a description of the Phantastron circuit. You can also download the Tektronix

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread David Forbes
@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Forbes Sent: maandag 10 februari 2014 21:00 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! On 2/10/2014 12:44 PM, Tidak Ada wrote: Hmm could be, but despite I have heard about it, I am

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread David Forbes
On 2/10/14 3:03 PM, Grahame Marsh wrote: I don't know eher this was clipped from and it might just be a copy of what you have already. I've built a few dividers down to 1Hz and they work phantastically. Always use the 6AS6 and not just any pentode. Grahame I have an 8 page textbook section.

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread Charles MacDonald
On 14-02-10 04:24 PM, Tidak Ada wrote: Hi Martin, Sadly they are .djvu files, I cannot open them as a Acrobat-8 user. There are stand alone .djvu readers for most operating systems... http://djvu.org/resources/ The adobe PDF readers tend to now play nice with others. -- Charles MacDonald

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-10 Thread David Forbes
On 2/10/14 2:58 PM, David Forbes wrote: Eric, I have a textbook Digital Logic Circuits or similar that describes it in depth. I will see about scanning it. Here it is - the book is Pulse and Digital Circuits from 1956. I scanned the Miller and Phantastron sections.

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-09 Thread Instrument Resources of America
P.S. very nice restoration job. Where is the schematic that you say is posted. I do NOT see it. Thanks, Ira. On 2/9/2014 2:25 PM, Dekatron42 wrote: Hi All, Today I finished restoring my EZ10/A/B tester that I bought a while ago. It is a small and nice box that makes it possible to

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-09 Thread Dekatron42
Hi, Thanks! The text fits perfectly! The schematic is in the PDF-file, fourth file named Elesta EZ10A-B Tester.pdf. /Martin On Sunday, 9 February 2014 23:44:08 UTC+1, I wrote: P.S. very nice restoration job. Where is the schematic that you say is posted. I do NOT see it. Thanks,

RE: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-09 Thread Tidak Ada
23:26 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! Hi All, Today I finished restoring my EZ10/A/B tester that I bought a while ago. It is a small and nice box that makes it possible to test how the EZ10/A/B under real working conditions. The tester

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-09 Thread Dekatron42
Hi, The Elesta document can be downloaded from Dieter here: http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/dat_arch/EZ10A_EZ10B.pdf (not a good scan but the only one I found for download), the book by Konstantin Apel can be bought cheap on Ebay now and then and also at places like Abebooks for around

RE: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-09 Thread Tidak Ada
. Further there are some very interesting pages in Dance's book. eric _ From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dekatron42 Sent: maandag 10 februari 2014 0:16 To: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-09 Thread Instrument Resources of America
You are very welcome, and glad that I could help. Ira. On 2/9/2014 2:55 PM, Dekatron42 wrote: Hi, Thanks! The text fits perfectly! The schematic is in the PDF-file, fourth file named Elesta EZ10A-B Tester.pdf. /Martin On Sunday, 9 February 2014 23:44:08 UTC+1, I wrote: P.S. very

RE: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-09 Thread Tidak Ada
: Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished! Hi, You can find atranscript here: http://www.radiomuseum.org/forum/die_dekadenzaehlroehre_ez10b.html. The book by Konstantin Apel is available at Abebooks, found four copies now where two are of each edition, http://www.abebooks.com/servlet

Re: [neonixie-l] Elesta EZ10/A/B tester refurbished!

2014-02-09 Thread John Rehwinkel
I have a 4MHz TCXO that I have to scle down to 4, 2 ,1, 1/2 and 1/4 Hz. The first stage will be unfortunately made with some TTL, because of I dont know there is any tube that is able to do the job. I can think of lots of tubes that can do that easily. I'd probably use miniature dual