Glimpse of the Past: Nixie Tubes and Arduino Powered by K155ID1 Microchip

Over a year ago I created the video about nixie tubes. It was not as popular as I would hope for, mainly because it did not have Arduino in it.
So here is a video which will show you how to control a nixie tube with arduino and dedicated K155ID1 microchip.
Hope you like it:)
Here is the link to code and parts
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[@8alonzo8]

Yep, this is cool. I saw your first video a few years ago. Glad you revisited this topic and improved the circuit!

[@marios_ideas]

Glad you liked it. It was a fun project.

[@LeszekGyver]

thank you for the clearest explanation !

[@johneagle4384]

Cool. Very interesting. Sometimes life gets easier with Arduino.

[@marios_ideas]

It does!

[@vomitedthoughts]

i dont know what im doing wrong every pin on the chip is an active ground for me, im understanding this wrong?

[@marios_ideas]

I mentioned in my video that I struggled with faulty chips I bouth from China. They did not work and heat up. I ended up buying a single chip locally. Is it possible you have the same problem?

[@vomitedthoughts]

@@marios_ideas what would be the best way to test them? Give 5 volts and ground to the chip and check if the output pins give it ground? If im understanding correctly there shouldn't be ground on the output pins without info from the input pins?

[@samwillard5688]

I am all in for the ancient stuff; I want to restore a radio from 1920's

[@thats_Roll]

Why does the Vcc port have only 5V on the microchip? This makes everything easier, of course, but how did you know it's voltage output? Thanks!

[@thats_Roll]

Thanks, this video helped me a lot!

[@O-VERALLGroup]

very intresting, so good! thanks

[@stefanobozzini6353]

Very instructive …as usual Mario…. Could it be an idea to build a 4 digit nixie clock, maybe with chatGPT …..?😊

[@ryangunn7638]

Very cool!

[@marios_ideas]

THX.Give video a like if you enjoyed it:)

[@portalmaster555]

Great video, helped me design my own circuit! Thanks a lot!

[@marios_ideas]

Give it a like:) That helps me a lot

[@X7338681]

wow Nixie tube Praty

[@marios_ideas]

Thanks:)

[@Helis-wz7ei]

Hey great work, it's really helpful ! I was wondering, would this circuit work with any Nixie tube ? For exemple with the IN14 ones, or maybe i just have to change the resistors ? And how can you controle the Output Voltage of the NCH6100HV ? In anycase, thank you for the video !

[@marios_ideas]

I did not calculate the resistor for this video. I just checked what sort of values other people use and picked the higher resistor value. What you have to be careful is the voltage. IN-1 needs 180V to discharge. But I have seen other lamps like IN-9 which require 160V and 180V would demage so it is one thing you need to check. The problem is that those laps are old and the data shhet are sometimes not available or if they are they are in Russian

[@Helis-wz7ei]

@@marios_ideas Thank you, i'll do my own research!

[@W1RMD]

There's quite a bit of headroom with the voltage and even the resistor. Basically start high on the resistor and low on the voltage. My 1(backwards N)16's strike at 135 volts and run best at 165 volts. As long as they don't start to glow purple you're good. Experiment with cheap neons first. They're basically similar. As long as you remember the current resistor and keep them under 200 volts you're okay. Watch "Mr Carlson's Lab" frequency counter video to see what this is like. Good luck@@Helis-wz7ei

[@markgreco1962]

Cool

[@MUHAMMADYAWARIFRAHEEM]

Very nice video

[@marios_ideas]

Thanks:) Like it if you liked it:) Would help me a lot

[@W1RMD]

I used cd4028's with mpsa42 npn resistors as I've heard that some of these high voltage dip package ic's are garbage. More slobbering iron work, but pretty basic. A lot of repetition to solder all of the sot-23 transistors in place, but they go nicely onto perf breadboard diagonally. I suppose mosfets would be okay too. Use 5k - 30k resistors on the bases of the npn's, although my finger on the base on the transistor and the other hand on +5 volts was enough current to light up the digits. I did this accidentally, so don't use your body to test this like I did! Practice with cheap neon bulbs first to get the idea.

[@marios_ideas]

Well clearly you are on another level when it comes to electronics:) i just followed the way it was done originally. Wasted 20usd on garbage chips from china and eventually buing working ones locally

[@W1RMD]

I had a big long answer, and hit the power button instead of the backspace and LOST IT ALL! So here it is again....Thanks for the complement, but it's not hard to use transistors and the value of the base transistor is not highly critical. You hook the collector of each npn transistor to the cathode of each nixie segment, and the emitter to ground. You hook the 5 volt logic signal to the base transistor and the ground of it to the common ground of the circuit. It will actually turn on the segments of the nixies on any voltage of about 1 volt or greater, just make sure the voltage rating on the transistor is high enough. The only pain is the extra parts and a LOT of repetition. I bought some cheap neons from Ali Express to practice this circuit first, but a nixie (as you know) in nothing more than a bunch of neons inside of a tube. They'll even work with positive on the cathode and negative on the anodes! Thanks for your great help and coding with this subject. A lot of K1551 chips are not good and flaky at best so that's why I opted for the transistor option. This also allows to check your circuitry with leds before messing with boos converters and nixies. On a side note, the cd4028's I got from Ali Express did not blank the nixie digits when all inputs are high like they're supposed to, but that's okay if you don't want to blank your tubes out or don't mind adding separate nand gates latter. You get what you pay for. Digikey and Mouser are pretty good priced, but you pay more for shipping. Best regards!@@marios_ideas

[@Drxxx]

Good video, i like your channel

[@marios_ideas]

Thanks:) Don't forget the likes!

[@Smooth_G]

Hi I'm working on similar project but I can't make it to work. I'm trying to change digits using button but I can't make it to detect state change and I'm stuck with counter counting up infinetly. Can you help me out?

[@marios_ideas]

So nixie works fine you have a problem with programming the button?

[@Smooth_G]

Yes, everything works fine but I want to change displayed digit using button and I don't know how to do it

[@Smooth_G]

@@marios_ideas Can you help me out?

[@marios_ideas]

​@@Smooth_G I will not write your code for you. For sarters you need to work on the code that increases digit variable with the press of the button. You can do it looking at my tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmi7Znerlslrebc. To make sure the code works display the digit variable in serial monitor kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnjOaa2lqLKkoqs. When you get this code right only then can you update your nixie code with that functionality