{"id":370,"date":"2016-03-05T22:03:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/?p=370"},"modified":"2016-03-05T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T05:03:49","slug":"kenwood-dg5-emulator-with-nixies-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/2016\/03\/05\/kenwood-dg5-emulator-with-nixies-is-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenwood DG5 Emulator with Nixies is working!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be going backwards with my display technology for this emulator.  First it was an LCD display, then LED&#8217;s, now Nixies!  I completed wiring up a set of TaylorEdge SmartNixies (http:\/\/www.tayloredge.com\/storefront\/SmartNixie\/index.html) using the IN-12b Nixie tube.  They make using Nixies with a micro-controller easy.  Each module has a PIC controller that is I2C addressable, so wiring is much easier than wiring up all the cathodes and anodes of 6 tubes &#8211; just +5V, +170V (for the tubes), GND, and SDA\/SCL data lines. 5 wires daisy chained together. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_42242\"  width=\"625\" height=\"352\"  data-origwidth=\"625\" data-origheight=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zX7lYSWhb18?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>I need to find an enclosure to get this mounted in, and given the size I&#8217;ll need I am thinking about a wooden enclosure with a speaker as well, unless I find some old test equipment shell I can mount this in &#8211; like an old Heathkit Frequency counter or similar.  <\/p>\n<p>So, to review, LCD is nice, LED&#8217;s are correct (the original DG5 used LED&#8217;s), and Nixies are the best! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I seem to be going backwards with my display technology for this emulator. First it was an LCD display, then LED&#8217;s, now Nixies! I completed wiring up a set of TaylorEdge SmartNixies (http:\/\/www.tayloredge.com\/storefront\/SmartNixie\/index.html) using the IN-12b Nixie tube. They make using Nixies with a micro-controller easy. Each module has a PIC controller that is I2C [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NQIK-5Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}