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 <html><p style="text-align:right;">Published 12 May 2018</p></html> <html><p style="text-align:right;">Published 12 May 2018</p></html>
-<html><p style="text-align:center;"><b><font size="6">Gas Plasma Displays</font></b></p></html>+<html><p style="text-align:center;"><b><font size="6">Reusing Gas Plasma Displays</font></b></p></html>
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 Occasionally I come across old gas plasma displays that I would like to use in projects.  Occasionally I come across old gas plasma displays that I would like to use in projects. 
  
 ===== Overview ===== ===== Overview =====
 +Nixie tubes and some early flat panel monochrome screens both use similar technology.  They rely on gases being excited into a plasma state by high voltage and emitting visible light.  Later 'plasma' colour TV screens use a similar discharge to produce ultra-violet light that then excites coloured phosphurs (red/green/blue) to produce coloured pixels.
  
 ===== Hardware description ===== ===== Hardware description =====
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 +Nixie tubes have electrodes shaped into symbols (eg '1','2', '3') or multiple segments (like numeric LED displays).  Flat panel plasma displays have a matrix of cells that can be caused to discharge individually, and have electronics to drive columns of cells in a wave or scan across the panel, a bit like refreshing a CRT tube.
  
 ===== Recovered plasma displays ===== ===== Recovered plasma displays =====
  
 On the [[:electronic:plasma:sidebar|sidebar]] there is a list of plasma displays that I have recovered from various pieces of scrap equipment and the linked pages include pinouts etc. On the [[:electronic:plasma:sidebar|sidebar]] there is a list of plasma displays that I have recovered from various pieces of scrap equipment and the linked pages include pinouts etc.
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 ====== References and Additional Resources ====== ====== References and Additional Resources ======
 +  * http://www.desmith.net/NMdS/Electronics/NixiePSU.html Nixie HV Switching PSU
  
 ===== Datasheets ===== ===== Datasheets =====

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