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Interesting read, I'm surprised these tubes are so fast considering my one remaining filament bulb always takes a few seconds to warm up after being switched on. Do these use a different filament type?
I don't get it, LEDs can be trivially modulated to MHz, why nixies? April fool? I would imagine having a couple of FPGAs, toggling 7 segment LED displays can easily do the same thing.
I'd assumed there would be some from the wonders of Shenzhen, but googling it seems not yet.
I don't get it, LEDs can be trivially modulated to MHz, why nixies? April fool? I would imagine having a couple of FPGAs, toggling 7 segment LED displays can easily do the same thing.
Can they actually be turned on/off to a brightness useful for displaying time? Modulating in a way useful to transmit data is different than a display useful for a high speed camera.
As we all know, modern LEDs (or even semiconductor lasers), the achievable brightness is very high.
Besides, I would be very surprised that such a modern high speed camera system doesn't come with triggering inputs that allows trivial digital generation of timestamps.
Interesting read, I'm surprised these tubes are so fast considering my one remaining filament bulb always takes a few seconds to warm up after being switched on. Do these use a different filament type?
Nixies don't emit light by heating, it's closer to neon tube
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nixies don't emit light by heating, it's closer to neon tube
That clears things up, although I'm curious now why a VFD wouldn't be better
https://www.daliborfarny.com/project/custom-nixie-tube-for-k...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nHkhJ52iA4
Obvious choice would not be VFDs or nixies but plain LEDs I'd imagine.