All-tube digital clock

[Nixie]

http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Lese...Roehrenuhr.htm
I guess he must be worried how he'll tell the time if there's an EMP blast nearby...

[jechentau]

waah, tubed digital circuits, that is absolutely gorgeous.

i'm gonna start drooling now..

[alexmoose]

is there an english page?

[EC8010]

What can I say? Beautiful lunacy.

[Nixie]

Originally posted by alexmoose
is there an english page?

I don't think so. Why, do you want to build one, you crazy bastad? ;P

[lineup]

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I first ran into Nixie tube clock at Hans Summer website.
Was some years ago.
It is a fun project, even for us non-tube people.
Of course people that have knowledge of Tube DIY
has a great advantage, to build such a clock.

They are decorative and different.
Imagine in a dark room!

There are several website, where people can send in pictures
of their Nixie Clock ... in online Gallery.

Regards
lineup


Here is Hans Summer website:

Z568M Nixie Tubes

After some searching on the web I found the nixie tube I wanted. The tube is a type Z568M, that had been manufactured in East Germany. I purchased a set of six from Jan Wuestens. The "New Old Stock" tubes arrived in England in their original cardboard boxes, and plenty of padding and packaging to keep them safe during the journey (well done Jan).

The Z568M is 4-inches high (100mm) and has a digit height of 2 inches (50mm).
It is therefore truly a giant amongst nixie tubes, presumably intended for railway clock applications and so on.

Giant Nixie Clock - Project by Hans Summer

[phn]

One of my first thoughts when I saw those Nixie tubes was that they would look great as CD player displays. Then I thought about all the work and forgot about it.

[Nixie]

Originally posted by lineup
...

Dude, you miss the point of the site I linked to, which is that the logic is also tubes, not just the displays. There are no solid state devices in the first site.

[AKN]

Hi!

Nice project.
Those nixies look nice in use, digits jumping back and forth.

A former working college to me once build a digital clock using only relays of various types, clock genarator excluded.

is there an english page?

Try this, not perfect but something.
Google translated

[Brian Beck]

My first thought was that this is beautiful.

My second thought was that this is a waste of good audio tubes

My third thought was that with an afternoon's worth of re-wiring, this could be a massively parallel output-transformerless amp.

My last thought was that this is beautiful.