Neon bulb logic elements link?

Dwight K. Elvey dwight.elvey at amd.com
Wed May 25 18:05:54 CDT 2005


>From: "Eric Smith" <eric at brouhaha.com>
>
>I wrote:
>> You turn on a particular tube by dropping the X line to 0V and raising
>> the Y line to +105V.  The selected tube sees 105V, while the other tubes
>> in the same row and column see 97.5V.
>
>Tom wrote:
>> I think your idea is generally right, but this detail seems wrong:
>> when X goes from +7.5V to 0V, the entire line will see 105V,
>> striking the entire line.
>
>Nope.
>
>                  7.5V            0V
>
>                   X0             X1
>                    |              |
>                    |              |
> 97.5V  Y0 --------90V-----------97.5V
>                    |              |
>                    |              |
>105.0V  Y1 --------97.5V----------105V
>
>
>Locations (0,0), (1,0), and (1,0) are all still below the strike
>voltage.
>

Hi
 When building neon logic, it might be better to consider
using capacitive coupling to connect up your logic.
Otherwise you may find that you'll have a significant
level shifting problem.
 Just a thought
Dwight




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