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
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
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
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
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
