Nixies, was Re: Octal

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 02 September 2006 12:03 pm, Dave McGuire wrote:
> The only real problem is a source of HV, but several people (including
> myself) are working on small "canned" HV generator modules which will
> be available cheaply.

Sounds good.  I would be interested in hearing more on this as it develops.

Aside from that,   several terminals that I've encountered (and some of which 
ended up being scrapped) had a power supply that provided both the typical +5 
and +/-12 but also had an output for the "CRT board" which was typically at 
least 100V,  perhaps higher.  It shouldn't be too much of a problem to get 
from there to the 170V that seems to be favored for Nixie tubes.

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