Nixies work fine, pins correct, wiring ok, weird symptoms

Yeah I was a dummy and forgot to relabel the pinout before I uploaded the schematics to the manufacturer (still a noobie with creating custom PCB's). I had the pins inverted because the autoroute option in my program was creating about 7 or 8 via's and I wanted as little complications with the design as possible so mounting it the other way created only one via under one of the IN-17's.


Reflashing the ATMEGA would explain the wifi issues. I put an order in for an ESP8266 to USB board and that will arrive Jan 5th roughly.

Since it's the weekend when I get home I have doubles of all my parts minus the nixie driver and wifi boards. I'll do another full sweep of the routes for my wiring. Once the adapter ships in I'll reflash the wifi module and give it another shot.

Hi iamtuck3r,

I think your routing is alright on your board. If all the digits work, they are all the same number, and they all change synchronously in test mode, that pretty much confirms it for me.

I'm really pretty sure you'll find something in the interconnection of the 2 boards. Individual wires on the pins to connect them would allow you to test them 1 at a time if necessary. Even double checking that cable with an ohmeter (with power off of course) to verify the connections are actually to the right pins would be a help.

The test sequence starts at "0" with the LED's lit "red". The LED's are once again "red" when it reaches "6". At "4" and "8" the LED's should be "blue". I've just verified this on my clock. That should be enough to tell you if the clock is displaying the same thing that it "thinks" it's displaying.

Hope that's some help,
Jim

I don't have any LED's hooked up at the moment. I was going to use far too many than the driver would handle so I have a completely separate power supply and LED setup. I do, however, have both common anode and common cathode RGB LED's laying around. I'll get some of those set up and see if the color coordination synchronizes with your description. PS, thank you for all the words of advice and help.

Just a note on the sequence of LED's and numbers in the self-test. The full sequence is:

0 - red
1 - yellow (red + green)
2 - green
3 - cyan (green + blue)
4 - blue
5 - violet (blue + red)
6 - red
7 - green
8 - blue
9 - white (red + green + blue)

Jim