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Hello, I'm now running into the problem that if I leave the thermometer on for more than a couple days, it seems to stop displaying/responding to input. Typically, I would like to put the nixies to sleep when I leave or go to bed and switch it to all off or blue LED only mode. But if it's been on a ...

The rest of the LEDs lit when I left it on more than a moment with the temp/humidity sensor removed and changed it to the demo mode where the lights run back and forth... so I went ahead and tested it with all the nixies and coil in place unsoldered (dangling upside down while holding the board by t...

Yeah, the sensor label was facing upwards... meaning I had it installed backwards like an idiot.

I guess it's ok to move on with the next part of the build then while my new one comes in the mail?

Connected to the [apparently more powerful] USB port on my netbook and lo and behold, the 5v indicator LED came on and stayed on, and I started to get D6 and D5 more dimly (I believe this is by design?) illuminating. But then I smelled something burning and noticed the DHT11 humidity/temp sensor imp...

It's a little weird. With R28 in place, the left leg gives me ~7.6kohms, but it starts up in the multi megohm range and goes down then up then down oscillating slowly before it settles on that value (takes about a minute). The right leg gives somewhere around 13kohms... even after a full minute it w...

I'm seeing ~2.2 volts.

The D10 diode is nothing to worry about then?

Pics of the underside of my board:
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Hello, I've just finished building my PCB right up to the point of the first check (ammeter across the pins of R28). My multimeter doesn't do mA :(. When I plugged it in then touched both legs of the resistor to the pads on R28, I get a single momentary flash from D17 then it goes off. Checking acro...

Hello, My wife got me this kit for Christmas (yay tinkering) and I notice the kits sold after November include bakelite sockets for the nixies. I'm a little leery of the lifespan of the IN tubes, so I was wondering if there was a way for me to get the sockets from the post-November kits? Also, a mod...