Multiplexing Nixies

[Jules Richardson]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2007 at 14:16, Jules Richardson wrote:
> 
>> Operable life looks pretty good. Might have to try and get hold of some of 
>> that for experimentation - I'm not sure where in the UK you can get it though 
>> (the handful of sites I saw were all in the US).
> 
> I've got a bunch of the EL cable--it's pretty interesting.

I think one of the places I came across earlier was doing it for about $1.20 
per foot; that's probably easily enough to make a large single-digit segmented 
display from actually (of course add HV source [1] and necessary decode logic 
on top of that)

[1] Presumably there are various transistor options for switching; AC voltage 
needed seems to be pretty low (in the order of 100V) at anything from 50Hz to 
2KHz.

> On the other hand, there is this rather bizarre Russian website that 
> appears to have something to do with stealing a street sign and 
> hooking it to a Sinclair Z80 system:
> 
> http://www.sheppard.ru/articles/fe/radiation/index.shtml

heh heh. And that's one big PSU:

http://www.sheppard.ru/articles/fe/radiation/laboratory-mipt-psupply-for-geyger.jpg

> How's your Russian? 

Largely gleaned from Hollywood movies, unfortunately ;-)