I’m now building another clock with a IVL1-7/5. In fact, I’m preparing a large bench of VFD clock, and I need to test several stuffs, so the schematic isn’t public right now.
This one use quite the same stuff than my previous I IV-18 clock, the main difference is the VFD power supply, but if you [...]
admin January 6th, 2007
Here a little video of my clock. In fact, I decided to replace the video on dailymotion ( it offers better quality than youtube)
admin October 10th, 2006
In the previous article, I have study the way to power this large VFD, now we gonna take a look closer at the logic itself. We need to drive a lot of bits (8+9) at ~40v. After a little googling, I discover that Allegro still sell some VFD drivers, but they are really hard to [...]
admin October 9th, 2006
Hello HackADay / MakeBlog / HackedGadget users, be sure to read the second post,
as most pictures are here.
/ Enjoy
After my nixie clock, I decided to build a new one based on a old VFD vacuum tube. In fact, the brother of a friend (which live in Ukrainia) give me a bag of tubes. Beside I [...]
admin October 9th, 2006
Hi all, I haven’t post here since a while right now. In fact, I spend quite all my time w/ playing with some electronics stuff.
Some people asked what I’m doing .. that it .. here a teaser
This is some New Old Stock Russian VFD vaccum tubes.. ready for my next RSS reader !
I’m looking for [...]
admin May 20th, 2006