Source for Russian Components

[Yorkie]

Sorry... I'm wandering off topic here so will start another thread when I have got a basic design clear in my head.

That's another thing that's allowed on this forum Dennis - wandering off topic! Sure, if it's something totally different by all means start new threads, but this forum reflects real life - not a sort of fastidious 'parallel universe' in which on no account may the hankies find their way into the sock drawer, so a bit of drifting and 'mission creep' is OK. You won't see any posts on here which start off with the writer apologising in advance to moderators in case they (the writer that is), haven't slotted the post into quite the right pigeon-hole. Too much of that malarkey and people stop bothering to post. Then it stops being a forum and becomes a 'virtual library' with lots of readers but not many books on the shelves.

Or so it seems to me.

Not knocking other forums - just saying what's good about this one.

And to drift back on topic, yes, those cheap little Ruskie triodes are very appealing. I think there's quite a lot of stuff on 'tinernet about them, with designs for all sorts of things.

I did rather fancy one of those 'scope clocks - I've got a nice 3" tube, but it becomes quite a complex expensive project. Great conversation piece though!

Good luck with your bar-graph nixie clock Dennis.