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Nixie tube clocks

B7971 Smartsocket driver:

Introduction

What does it do? Movies!

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IN-18 nixie clock

The ball clock

Floating tube clock

The infinity clock

A slim clock

A slim couple of clocks

Pyramid clock

Panel meter clock

Two tube Charlienixie clock

A small two tube clock

 

Panaplex clocks

The pinball clock

 

LED clocks

The Holoclock

 

Charlieplexed LED clocks

Charlieplexed clocks intro

Circular clock 1

Circular clock 2

Circular clock 3

Circular clock 4

Circular clock 5

Circular clock 6

7 segment dotty clock

 

VFD clocks

Approximate clock

Russian IV-18 clock

 

A slim couple of clocks

A male and female nixie pair? Perhaps…

The male is taller and slimmer, the female smaller yet plumper. Stereotypes maybe, but I cannot help seeing this pair of clocks as a couple.

How this pair were conceived was as a result of me experimenting with the most compact layout I could think of. I was using surface mount transistors and so it was that I ended up with a pair of boards I could either place side by side or back to back.

I made up one clock using the boards side by side and one back to back. They stayed this way for some months until I decided I really should make some cases for the clocks.

The two clocks from paired boards

Settings are by means of two discrete holes in the clocks' sides. The switches are quite near the fairly lethal power components, which are not isolated from the mains, so I would not advise sticking any hairpins in there, but so far I have avoided any shocks by using a small rod of plastic to set the time with.

The cases are built from sections of plastic pipe, acrylic sheet and polyester resin based filler to smooth off the curves. All sprayed to a satin black finish.

Maybe the female is a Dalek? The back-to-back male design is more economical on space, but the female is rather more stable and less prone to falling over.