How to get IV-11 VFD tubes properly aligned on protoboard

[Gideon Wackers]

I received my IV-11 tubes today and I was trying to put them on a board, a prototyping board. The best way to insert them (that I found) was the one in the attachment. But I noticed that the tubes would be ever so slightly tilted, aprox 1-2 mm over the whole tube. Does anyone have a better way to place them? I have added an empty piece of protoboard next to my best try in case someone wants to show his/her idea. My alternative plan is to just bend the wires a little but I don't want to stress the connection to the glass feedthrough (?) too much. 

For those who followed my previous thread(s) currently I am only waiting for the PLCC to dip sockets and DC-DC convertors, the rest is here. And a friend is helping me with the arduino code. :)

[David Forbes]

Gideon,

The wires are flexible. Don't worry about stressing the glass.

[Adam Jacobs]

Yep, exactly. I can take a picture of how I place them, but basically it
ends up being a sort of square or rectangle. I leave about a centimeter
of lead above the protoboard so that the tube can be gently twisted the
right way.

-Adam

[Gideon Wackers]

Ok I'll see wether i can place them a bit higher as I was pushing them almost against the pcb.

[vfdclock]

No need to place round as a circle on the proto board,you  can place it liake square or other sharp,the leg is flexible,just be care of being short.
For driving signel IV-11 tube as a module, check http://vfdclock.jimdo.com/.

http://u.jimdo.com/www36/o/sb03fefd490221d21/img/i3cf583dfcc7c7895/1368173674/orig/iv-11-vfd-module.jpg

在 2013年12月5日星期四UTC+8上午6时26分55秒，nixiebunny写道：