[Upcycle It] Nixie Display #2 - Investigations

RE: [Upcycle It] Nixie Display #2 - Investigations

COMPACT — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 08:33:24 GMT

If you're stripping out the 7490's why not replace it with a PSoC4 or 5LP to drive the 74141 BCD inputs.

The PSoCs make a really easy way to create a parallel, serial, USB, SPI, or I2C device to display a few nixie numeric digits with minimal fuss and effort.

Just a thought (as DAB would say).

RE: [Upcycle It] Nixie Display #2 - Investigations

DAB — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:56:58 GMT

Nice update.

Yes the nixie wires take a lot of current to pump out the photons.

DAB

RE: [Upcycle It] Nixie Display #2 - Investigations

mcb1 — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 11:58:32 GMT

I do like the GerritCAD drawing.

Looks like your solution may be relatively easy to implement, especially given the socketed chips.

Mark

RE: [Upcycle It] Nixie Display #2 - Investigations

Workshopshed — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 05:29:34 GMT

Nice investigation and explaination