I'm in for one. Regards, Zane -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of MichaelB Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 11:21 AM To: neonixie-l Cc: [email protected] Subject: [neonixie-l] 6 Digit Direct-Drive B7971 clock kit
To all, As some of you may know, Carl Ott of this forum has done a wonderful 6 digit direct-drive clock design for the B7971. I have been working with Carl and another forum member and have had a batch of PCB's made per his gerber files. This has resulted in my building an open-top version of his clock using Carl's software which can be seen here on my site: http://www.badnixie.com/The_%22Modular%22_Nixie.html and also on Brian Stuckey's site: (scroll down a bit) http://www.tubeclockdb.com/nixie-clocks.html We have received some inquiries about offering a kit like the clock you see here. It would be complete with the acrylic top, drilled and tapped base plate, colon towers and the whole nine yards. So, we're trying to determine if there is enough interest to make an initial run of 10 kits. We are not sure of the selling price yet, but our driving force here is to offer a product to the community that fills a void, not try to gouge our brethren. Note the aluminum fab'd bracket mounting the rotary encoder. This will be replaced with a right angle rotary that will mount directly to the PCB. Carl plans to do a little more tweaking to the software as well. Also there is a fair amount of SMD component soldering involved by the user and the kit will be offered without tubes. Here is a list of the feature set as it stands now. ==Unique Rotary Encoder User interface ==Auto Display dimming feature via photo sensor ==Adjustable DIM and Brightness levels with Adjustable Dimming threshold ==QuickTime Set feature- quickly and easily set current time without entering config. mode ==9 Selectable FONTS ==Clock spells out the Month and Day of the week, also displays date and year ==Four user selectable colon modes- OFF, ON, BLINK, ALT, or RAILRD (railroad) == TCXO time based ==Time On/Time Off sleep setting ==Smooth Digit Cross Fade feature with fade rate adjust. ==12/24 hour display mode selection ==Leading Zero Suppression selection ==Adjustable Pulse width Modulation setting value. ==Light Value Test Feature to determine optimal dimming point ==CW/CCW Rotary encoder direction selection Your feedback is appreciated! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
