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Derpy marveling at the warm glow of a Nixie tube.
Careful, Derpster… that’s high voltage coming from the batteries!
Careful, Derpster… that’s high voltage coming from the batteries!
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But at 120VAC, the VOUT would be too much.
A full bridge rectifier would do the trick. It takes the 120VAC in and converts it to 170VDC.
LoL Oh gawd, I’d never try putting AC on it. No, a voltage tripler gives you DC out, at a voltage roughly three times the AC input voltage.
Nixie tubes don’t run off AC, though.
If you were to run them off AC, it would look like a fuzzy mess in the tube… both the grid and the selected number would light.
Блин! :D Very nice.
I wouldn’t worry about safety too much here. The internal impedance of the batteries, and your skin, will keep things from getting dangerous (usually). It’s not like you’re using a mains-connected voltage tripler to get your B+, like some goofballs [cough-cough]. :3
I won’t. I can imagine the consequences.
BTW if you haven’t read that one comment, I used a 56K series resistor so as not to dump all the current into the tube and damage it.
Well, you know, “piles” has more than one meaning which is kind of what I was going for but
ANYWAY please don’t try this battery trick for anything that needs more than a handful of milliamps?
The batteries themselves are safe to handle, but the terminals are not.
Since there’s 177V coming out of there, you could get a decent shock.
The total I got from the batteries was 177V.
I used a 56K resistor to limit the current to the tube.
BTW the tube is a Ukranian Gazotron IN-12A. Made July 1987.
If she needs more heat, let her know I’ve got a bank of 6AS7/6080 dual triodes here.