The Great Search: 20 to 30V low current booster for VFD or OLED
This weekend we got to play with a VFD tube. This ancient technology uses a gas tube to light up segments. In order to activate the fluorescence, we need to provide 20 to 30V DC on the segments. Not a lot of current, maybe 1mA each, but definitely needs to be a high voltage. For lower voltages, we could use a switched-cap converter. But for this, we'll need a proper booster! Let's find a small, low cost, simple, and available boost converter that can give us these bias voltages from 3 or 5V DC input. See on Digi-Key at https://www.digikey.com/short/q4hvnttb Visit the Adafruit shop online -…
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