Nixie dashboard for a car

[J Forbes]

Is anyone working on one? has anyone made one work? or not done so well at it, and learned something?

[peter bunge]

My digital tach made in the mid '70s using RCA DR2000 incandescent displays. 

It was installed in a rear view mirror and mounted on the dash of 1961 Corvair.

There was a magazine article (possibly Radio Electronics)

 

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:01 PM J Forbes <jfor...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is anyone working on one? has anyone made one work? or not done so well at it, and learned something?

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[Michail Wilson]

Nice.  Love numitrons.

 

I think many thought they wouldn’t be able to handle the vibrations; however, they were used in a lot of aircraft equipment which endure typically more vibrations than a car.

 

Michail

 

 

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My digital tach made in the mid '70s using RCA DR2000 incandescent displays. 

It was installed in a rear view mirror and mounted on the dash of 1961 Corvair.

There was a magazine article (possibly Radio Electronics)

 

 

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 10:01 PM J Forbes <jfor...@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Is anyone working on one? has anyone made one work? or not done so well at it, and learned something?

 

 

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[David Forbes]

I'm building a Nixie instrument cluster for my Corvair. It's designed to fit in the space formerly occupied by the speedometer. There are six displays, made with 4998 and 5870 tubes. 

The drivers are 74HC595 shift registers and TBD62084 HV arrays. It's not multiplexed.

A Teensy 3.2 in a box under the hood collects the telemetry and sends the SPI cathode data over an RS422 data link to the display head. The gauges are: speed, tach, oil pressure, cylinder head temperature, voltage and odometer. There are 19 Nixie tubes in all. 

I hope it works. The prototype will be adhered to the front of the old instrument cluster with Velcro for ease of modification.

Photos in a week or so.

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Is anyone working on one? has anyone made one work? or not done so well at it, and learned something?

[Keith Moore]

A couple years ago I made one out of an Arduino Uno that used any of the smaller Russian nixies like IN-2, IN-17, or IN-12 JUST for speedometer. It plugged into the cigar lighter as a stand-along box.  It was just for fun.   I dropped the software into github. AntiqueSounds/SpeedoNixie: Nixie Speedometer code for Arduinix (github.com)

[Bill Notfaded]

Dave I'll be interested in seeing your Nixie instrument cluster when it's done!  Sounds like it's going to pretty dang cool looking.

Bill

[Nick Andrews]

Yes, we need pictures, of course...

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