Nixie tube clock works now.

I just need two more tubes...

So far it's running great. I could finish the code, ordered a new revision of the pcb and need to wait for it...

Love the look already!

2. Got things mixed up with the nixie tube footprint: Thought that the pinout in a datasheet was top view but it was bottom... Well as it's THT I thought you could just switch the side of soldering.

Turns out: Works but now I can't show proper times as I don't control all of the cathodes AHHH

Some more issues with my nixie tube clock:

1. Messed up the connection between footprint and schematic symbol of the transistors switching the cathodes, had to get a little creative (see images, definitely IPC compliant xD)

So I've been building a HV generator for my nixie tube project but had a wrong resistor for the frequency programmig. The whole thing ran on 3.2MHz instead of 420k lol, suprisingly it still supplied the required voltage xD

Got the idle power down from 2W to a few mW