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Frequency Counter LS-223 ( Home made )


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Fig.1 Nixie tubes. The left two are CD71(Hitachi) and the right two are CD78S(Panasonic).



In my high school days, 7 segments LED display is expensive for me. Someday I transfered some 2nd hand nixie tubes ( CD78s Panasonic ) from a local amature radio station, which had removed from an old electrical calculator. So I used these nixie tubes and the driver ICs ( SN74141N ) for this counter. After few years, CD78S intensity were going low, so I had to look for the new ones. At a parts shop "DIGIT" in Nippon-bashi, Osaka, there were some nixie tubes ( CD71 Hitachi ). I bought them and replaced.