bonxer
New Member
I'm wanting to start playing around with Nixie tubes, but before I do, I would like to figure out what all I'm going to have to do to power them. I've read that they need 170-180 volts to work. Do they need this in AC or DC, or does it matter?
Being that I'm in the US, I have 120 volt AC outlets, and would need to step it up to 180. All the transformers I have found go down to 9 or 12 or 25, etc... I haven't found any that go up. I've found some that I can order online that will go up to 240, but they are rediculously expensive compared to every other transformer I've gotten.
If need be, could I use two transformers? One would be a 120 to 9, the other would be a 120 to 6. Being that 9:6 is 3:2, could I connect the first transformer's 120 primary to the main outlet, and its seconary 9 output to the other transformer's 6? Since I'm giving it 3:2 what it's expecting there, would it maintain the 3:2 ratio and output 180 instead of 120? Is this possible? Is this safe?
Being that I'm in the US, I have 120 volt AC outlets, and would need to step it up to 180. All the transformers I have found go down to 9 or 12 or 25, etc... I haven't found any that go up. I've found some that I can order online that will go up to 240, but they are rediculously expensive compared to every other transformer I've gotten.
If need be, could I use two transformers? One would be a 120 to 9, the other would be a 120 to 6. Being that 9:6 is 3:2, could I connect the first transformer's 120 primary to the main outlet, and its seconary 9 output to the other transformer's 6? Since I'm giving it 3:2 what it's expecting there, would it maintain the 3:2 ratio and output 180 instead of 120? Is this possible? Is this safe?