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Making The FranLab Nixie Crawl

🕑 Added 2024-04-01 21:43:10 +0000 UTC

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Richard Vickers

i have to say Fran thats ingenious ...i thought for one momment u had 8 tubes there ,fooled me hahaha

Zygmunt Dean

Ray Harryhausen eat your heart out! 😁

Keri Szafir

Lots of B-7971 or lots of tubes in general?

Keri Szafir

I'm thinking about using MCP23017 and MPSA44 as driver transistors, or two SN75468 drivers. With Vceo max at 100V they should be perfectly enough. The "bottom lip" could be controlled with a transistor if desired.

Donald J Arndt

Well done Fran!

buixote

!!! That what you call a "video multiplex" ? ;-)

erador

Still got one, but only really for ADSL reasons. Won't bother when we go fibre

Bob Darlington

I cut the cord 20+ years ago.

C Genco

Who has a landline anymore? 😉

Fran Blanche

I've got lots of tubes - several people unloaded their stores to me when I did that original video - and I am working on a version of a universal driver board for these tubes too... but all that is still in the future. This was just for fun.

Keri Szafir

And I thought Bob Darlington sent his collection, he had like twelve of them - that's something! I got Aprilfooled so nicely. Super cute!

Bob Darlington

I have 12 (plus a spare in a drawer) mounted, but never built the driver circuits. Someday. I wanted to have the world's first Nixie caller-ID display with the B-7971 tubes, but who has a POTS line anymore?