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Nixie Driver IC Placement

The result is a compact assembly, typical for a 1960s build, but…

Good luck repairing these if an IC driver fails!

Had these for a while and not yet thought of a project.

Perhaps build a “Steam Punk” style Nixie clock with these little modules?

What would you do with them?

u/EmotionalEnd1575 — 1 day ago
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Help

Захотел сделать часы на 4 сегментном 7 зарядном дисплее

Но вообще без понять как делать разные цифры чтобы появлялись одинаково

Помогите с этой задачей пожалуйста

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u/Mega_gorohomet_228 — 2 days ago
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My first project Nixie Dice

I used an Arduino and a vibration sensor to control a K155ID1 to make a retro dice:)

u/DenseVictory8375 — 3 days ago
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Some unique Nixie tubes manufactured in China are all designed for special applications

Even in China, these are extremely rare

u/Mobile-Stage-4406 — 4 days ago
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Many rare Chinese tubes

Some are nixie tubes and some are VFD tubes, I believe not many people have seen them.

u/hzzaaacccc — 6 days ago
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Got a DAP with IN-17 Nixie Tubes

This is basically a bluetooth music player, it also gives power to your iems/headphones and better decoding quality/latency, more than anything it is a gimmick device, it uses nixie tubes (IN-17) to display the volume, it is really satisfying to look at

u/Acatriel — 6 days ago
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VFD Clock

Made a 3D-printed Housing for a VFD Tube clock. Sadly the clock I used is no longer being sold by the seller on Aliexpress. DM if you want STL or 3mf files.

u/shreck_the_savior — 8 days ago
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You told me to get equipped before I fried something. Done.

Last week you guys told me to stop messing around and get properly equipped before frying something. Message received.
Picked up an anti-static wrist strap, a proper multimeter (KAIWEETS KM100s) and a digital caliper. Grounded and ready now. The strap is clipped to the board, no more working off a carpet with bare hands like an animal.
The setup is a NCS314-6 v3.4 with 6 IN-14 plus the IN-1 separator, sitting on the GRA & AFCH ASTRPA v2.1 adapter. Pi is a 3A+ for now, just my dev board to get first light, the production unit will run on a Pi Zero 2W.
Next on my list is actually measuring instead of guessing. I want to check the real anode resistor value on the board and confirm whether this thing drives the tubes statically or multiplexed. That changes a lot for how I think about lifespan.
Which brings me to the thing I keep losing sleep over. This is going to be a KPI dashboard, so it will sit on a number like a revenue figure for hours, sometimes the same digits all day. Cathode poisoning feels like a real risk here, way more than on a clock that cycles through every digit naturally.
For those of you running tubes long term, what is your actual anti-poisoning routine? Full 0 to 9 cathode cycling a few times a day, slot machine style, or something lighter? Curious what actually works in practice versus what just sounds good on paper.

u/Nixiepulse — 7 days ago
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Argon Filled Nixie tube

Picture of an experimental RZ568M Nixie tube, filled with Argon instead of Neon. Nice purple glow, but requires much more power to run - approx 280v and about 25mA.

u/Synthdabbler — 12 days ago
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Anyone know a source for these brass rings

It needs to fit an IN-3 tube. Diameter ~7mm/0.28in

u/DenkJu — 9 days ago
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Finally have my Nixie tubes actually pulsing with live data (still very much beta, video inside)

OK, alors voilà, j'ai passé pas mal de temps à poster ici à propos de ce truc que je suis en train de construire, et on me demande souvent (à juste titre) : « Super rendu, mais est-ce que ça marche vraiment ? »

Alors voilà. De vrais tubes IN-14, allumés, qui affichent des chiffres en temps réel récupérés d'une API. Pas de maquette, pas d'After Effects. Juste mon bureau, un Raspberry Pi et des tubes plus vieux que moi qui diffusent cette douce lueur orangée que je ne peux détacher de mon regard.

https://reddit.com/link/1uhaks2/video/vn7lfgb8gv9h1/player

L'idée, si vous avez raté les messages précédents : c'est un tableau de bord physique qui affiche en temps réel les chiffres qui vous intéressent. Chiffre d'affaires, prix du BTC, disponibilité du serveur, nombre d'abonnés, etc. Les tubes n'affichent que les chiffres de 0 à 9, évidemment, donc les symboles et les unités sont affichés sur une petite bande OLED à côté. Les tubes pour l'émotion, l'OLED pour l'utile. Honnêtement, le plus dur n'a pas été l'électronique, mais plutôt de résister à la tentation de rester assis à regarder les chiffres défiler toute la journée. Il y a quelque chose de particulier dans cette sensation mécanique, cette lueur qu'aucun écran ne peut offrir.

Où j'en suis : Il s'agit d'une version bêta fonctionnelle. Elle fonctionne, elle récupère des données et elle ne prend pas feu. Mais je suis encore en train de peaufiner les aspects techniques : la stabilité de l'alimentation, la couche logicielle et la mise au point d'un système d'assemblage reproductible sans m'énerver.

En toute transparence, car ce forum ne plaisante pas (et je respecte cela) : la société n'est pas encore officiellement enregistrée, je suis en pleine procédure avec la chambre de commerce locale en France, et aucun code NAF n'a encore été attribué. Je ne vends rien aujourd'hui, je ne demande pas d'argent, et ce n'est pas un appel aux dons. Je suis vraiment en phase bêta et je voulais montrer du matériel fonctionnel à ceux qui apprécieraient vraiment ces tubes.

Je suis ravi de répondre à toutes vos questions : approvisionnement en tubes, configuration du circuit de commande, pourquoi j'ai choisi un Raspberry Pi plutôt qu'un ESP32, etc. N'hésitez pas à me signaler toute erreur.

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u/Nixiepulse — 9 days ago
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Homemade? Modded? Odd

My friend and I did a Nixie swap. He did a teardown of a Fluke bench DVM, which had been hacked quite a bit.

One of the B5870 Nixies had “thin wires coming out of the base” - was it a mod?

Looks to me as if a previous repair needed a similar Nixie tube, and someone made this to fit.

Or, someone was modding the unit and wanted to add access to the dp symbols, which had been trimmed off.

Either way the Nixie in question works!

The four added on wires are DPL, DPR, K6, and A. (this tube has a second Anode wire, so not sure why the bodge wire was added, or why K6 was already snipped off?)

The new wires were covered with epoxy glue, and when I got the factory base cap had been placed on, but not glued.

The work was well done, someone put some effort in to this project.

Comments Welcome!

u/EmotionalEnd1575 — 14 days ago