Howdy y'all;
I'm rather new to Nixies, however I've seen them before and I'm quite
enthralled with them. I've picked up some Burroughs B5092A's (From
what I can tell from one of their catalogs, a long-life
high-visibility one) for $4 a piece and am working on schematics for a
simple clock I want to build.
I guess my first major question is: Has anyone used KiCad to build
things with Nixies? If so, whats your experience? (good bad or
indifferent)
Second major question is /why is there a radioactivity symbol on
these?/ On all my little nixies there's a radioactive symbol next to
the name -- I can assume because they've got amounts of 85Kr in them
(according to the label on one).
Third, not so major question, is does anyone know of a source for
sockets? I dont want to have to solder new nixies every time one burns
out (though i have a hunch these wont given the power supply I'm going
to put them on).
And a little about me:
I'm a high school student in ABQ, dabble in hardware and software
(though my passion is applications, I love hardware stuff). I've been
soldering since I was 2, and am now better than my father (who
ironically is an embedded systems guy) except that I cant do surface
mount. I understand the basics of electronics and as long as I have
some sort of basis in reality I'm fairly good at figuring out what a
circuit does.
--
Morgan gangwere
¡°The future¡¯s already arrived. It¡¯s just not evenly distributed yet.¡±
William Gibson
