***Official Electronics Thread of Officialness (it starts off with lots of Nixie Tube Clock goodness

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LOL that must have cost a fair whack :eek:


I've got an old psu here i'm going to make into a ncie bench one with fixed and variable outputs when i finally get round to this. :D

Although in all likely hood i'll find a way to make one of the caps explode in my ace in the process :p
 
Tefal said:
LOL that must have cost a fair whack :eek:


I've got an old psu here i'm going to make into a ncie bench one with fixed and variable outputs when i finally get round to this. :D

Although in all likely hood i'll find a way to make one of the caps explode in my ace in the process :p
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I don't recall it being especially expensive...

I'd love to have a bench power supply though, but i did just get a really nice Autoranging Multimeter (Uni-T UT70B) :)
 
In the original Fallout there are softly glowing Valves in the side of the screen, and Nixies are a first cousin of the Valve :)
they're a very period-appropriate technology for Fallout anyway :D
 
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Ah ha! There you go then :D

Do the Nixies get particularly hot? I am a guitar player and own a valve amp, I've recently moved into a smaller room for teaching and it heats up my room very quickly!
 
no, they're a cold-cathode technology because there's no need for thermionic emission, so they stay stone-cold despite their lovely warm glow :)
 
I'd always wondered what these were - I assumed they were one off's for film props etc!

I'm very impressed! How difficult would you say it was to put everything together?
 
FARGO said:
I'd always wondered what these were - I assumed they were one off's for film props etc!

I'm very impressed! How difficult would you say it was to put everything together?
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not particularly hard, like i said in the OP, it only took about nine and a half hours and i really took my time double and triple checking everything :)

By the way, I've done some research and both the ITT and Raytheon Tubes i linked to in my opening post both appear to be both attractive and also fairly rare. if you're seriously considering building a nixie clock I'd advise you to do some research and buy 'em if you like them.

if you don't get round to building the clock you can always sell them later :)
 
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