AVR-Chat

Good god, Nixie tubes!?!? Can you still buy those things?

I remember designing a time code generator for our tracking stations that
had a bank of nine tubes in the display. That was 35 years ago! What next,
counters using ac cross coupled triodes (tubes)?

Bruce

> 
> Have a look at how Dieter is making his Nixie clocks ...
> 
> http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/v300/chronotronix-v300.htm
> 
> He has a really simple jig built of wood that uses a couple of card
> guides to position the board correctly.  The board has bare fingers
> routed right to the edge that slide into an edge connector.
> 
> Slide the board into the jig, program/test and you're done.
> 
> Dean.