Any Nixie tubes fans?

[Telecolor 3007]

Any Nixie tubes fans around here?
I dream to built an Nixie tubes clock with elctronic tubes taking place of all the chips that you found in a normal electronic clock (I saw a picture of that kind of clock) - any one got some schematics?

[jeyurkon]

It sounds like you want to build a Nixie Tube clock that doesn't use solid state drivers or counters. There are several ways to do it, but perhaps the easiest would be to use a glow transfer counter tube known as the dekatron. They are available on ebay. You could build counters with triodes but that would consume a lot of tubes.

You could try contacting the author of this video:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenore-m/505382992/

I didn't find any Nixie+dekatron schematics with a google search, but there seem to have been a number of individuals who have built them.

John

[NowhereMan 1966]

I also like Nixie tubes as well, they are neat. My fantasy is to build an automobile digital dashboard using Nixie tubes.

[titanstats]

Always wanted one of those SAE tuners with the nixies for the display -- very cool. Way too much $$$ for me, though.

[yamahammer]

they look cool i guess the best way to is buy the kits whereever you can find the best price

[niklasthedol]

Check this link about Nixie Clocks:
http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/nixiegallery.html



Being a watch collector AND Music enjoyer, myself, caught my interest in Nixie Clocks.

"dolph"

[Out Of Time]

Awesome! I've always wanted one. I've since determined that I wouldn't mind trying my hand at building my own someday.

[ke4mcl]

nixies are cool!

have some nixie tubes in my stash and *one* dekatron tube. took me a while to figure out it was a dekatron as i had never seen one in person before.

[DENNYDOG]

I think the nixie clocks are pretty cool. Never heard of the term dekatron before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekatron

[AUdubon5425]

I have an adding machine (Casio 121-L) that uses individual blue-green VFD tubes - not exactly a nixie, but a close kissing cousin to it. I had to open it up once and was surprised to see twelve little tubes lined up in there!

[steerpike2]

ONE day - when time is plentiful - I want to make a standalone CD player from a PC-CDR drive, which *will* have a nixie time/track display... the nixies are waiting in a box in my storeroom!

[julianburke]

Among much other stuff, I've been saving nixie stuff for 30 years-Calculators, Test Equipment, Counters, Oscillators and the tubes themselves.

[jhal]

Check this clock out. The page is in German, but you get the idea. The quality of construction is excellent to say the least. Not a transistor to be found, though there are solid state diodes used. No "Energy Star" sticker here, lol.

http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Lese...Roehrenuhr.htm

[Plumberboy1]

I just bought a nixie tube clock kit off the Bay. It was $72.00 and some change. I think it uses 4 IN16's, could be wrong. Would have to go back to the link. Just do a search for tube clock kit. I will keep you posted. The seller emailed the instuctions to me. I was going to buy a cheap clock from the store but found this instead. The seller was Fenwick 161 in the UK. Shipping was $6.95.

Greg

[Bob E.]

Meh...everyone's making Nixie clocks...that's so last century. The true geek will blaze new trails and fabricate a CRT clock!

http://www.cathodecorner.com/

http://web.jfet.org/vclk/

--Bob