Nixie Tube Power Supply

Nixie Tube Power Supply

A nixie tube power supply that I documented at hackaday.io. Efficiency ranges from around 65% for 3.7V in, up to around 80% for 5V and 12V.

Here it is driving a bunch of IN-12 tubes at 177V from a little LiPo battery:

My little power supply that could…

Here is a chart showing the maximum output current for a given input and output voltage:

Maximum output current for a given input and output voltage

PCB is on OSHPark. KiCAD and LTSpice projects are on my github. A full BOM with digikey part numbers is on hackaday.io.

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