These are pretty cool...
http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/nixies.html
I think dice45 mentioned that he had a clock made out of these.
I'm pretty much a solid-state guy (except when it comes to guitar distortion) but these things are pretty sweet!!!
http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/nixies.html
I think dice45 mentioned that he had a clock made out of these.
I'm pretty much a solid-state guy (except when it comes to guitar distortion) but these things are pretty sweet!!!
Inexpensive Nixies
if you want to buy some cheap nixies, consider the HP5326 digital counter. I believe it uses 8 nixies, and it's a damn good counter to boot. (I had one with the built in DVM, it was just as acurate as my 5334a) With a little CMOS circuitry (this would be really easy with a PIC MCU) you could have the counter "count 24 hours in seconds and reset at the top of the clock, even have it synch to WWV.
if you want to buy some cheap nixies, consider the HP5326 digital counter. I believe it uses 8 nixies, and it's a damn good counter to boot. (I had one with the built in DVM, it was just as acurate as my 5334a) With a little CMOS circuitry (this would be really easy with a PIC MCU) you could have the counter "count 24 hours in seconds and reset at the top of the clock, even have it synch to WWV.
seangoesbonk.
no, i haven't yet, no time. My buddy vinylsavor has built one.
But if i see the prices on the link, i wish i had when they were still affordable.
In the meantime i have found a website offering a radio-controlled nixie clock design for time and calendar fort the European clock radio signal (transimtted in Germany by the PTB). I think i will follow this path. I know htat such kists exist for the American signal, too. I t depends on the µC reading the code and on the tuned receiver circuit.
I thought, with all those mechanical clocks around me, a digital clock atleast have to have radio control.
My Nixie links:
http://www.camuw.demon.co.uk/web_site/g3ynh/digrdout/74141.html
http://www.camuw.demon.co.uk/web_si...lhttp://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~wwl/nixclock.html
http://home.snafu.de/pkostov/dcf77.html
http://www.heret.de/funkuhr/index.htm
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/index.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JasonRandHarper/Nixie.html
http://the-planet.org/
http://www.spettel.de/ralf/index_reload.html?[url]http://www.spettel.de/ralf/projekte/nixieclock/[/url]
Have fun with them!
no, i haven't yet, no time. My buddy vinylsavor has built one.
But if i see the prices on the link, i wish i had when they were still affordable.
In the meantime i have found a website offering a radio-controlled nixie clock design for time and calendar fort the European clock radio signal (transimtted in Germany by the PTB). I think i will follow this path. I know htat such kists exist for the American signal, too. I t depends on the µC reading the code and on the tuned receiver circuit.
I thought, with all those mechanical clocks around me, a digital clock atleast have to have radio control.
My Nixie links:
http://www.camuw.demon.co.uk/web_site/g3ynh/digrdout/74141.html
http://www.camuw.demon.co.uk/web_si...lhttp://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~wwl/nixclock.html
http://home.snafu.de/pkostov/dcf77.html
http://www.heret.de/funkuhr/index.htm
http://www.boulder.nist.gov/timefreq/index.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JasonRandHarper/Nixie.html
http://the-planet.org/
http://www.spettel.de/ralf/index_reload.html?[url]http://www.spettel.de/ralf/projekte/nixieclock/[/url]
Have fun with them!
There's a great article in the current issue of IEEE Spectrum on Nixies. Some great shots of DIY stuff.
Now I want some. Threw a bunch away years ago. Sigh.
Now I want some. Threw a bunch away years ago. Sigh.
I found an old HP something or other with 5 top view nixie's. The parts for the clock are arriving on Monday. If you pull the nixies out of something you get the bonus of a transformer that was actually intended for the nixie's voltage.
Interesting side note: For some reason or another my nixie tubes have some sort of optical isolation from the rest of the unit. I had no idea that such a thing existed back in '62. Any guesses as to why? If anyone is interested I'll post a pic of the isolation part of the circuit.
-Dan
Interesting side note: For some reason or another my nixie tubes have some sort of optical isolation from the rest of the unit. I had no idea that such a thing existed back in '62. Any guesses as to why? If anyone is interested I'll post a pic of the isolation part of the circuit.
-Dan
It's likely that the isolation optics were used to prevent the high nixie voltage from interfering with the logic circuitry.
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