Nice project. I see that the tube is from CCCP, which means that the tube might last long time. I never had a chance to get into VFDs, I'd make project like this out of ordinary 7-segment displays with some digital logic chips.
Keep up the good work!
Man, VFD tube IV-18 and others can be bought on Ebay with the world delivery =)
It's more like I don't have powerful enough power supply to play around with VFDs
You need to make a step-up converter, I'll tell you how to do it in the next posts;)
I know. I will need a couple of boost converters. I'm saying, I don't have lab bench power supply, I don't know if my self made PSU will handle it.