I'd have to disagree with you there Dieter, nothing wrong with acrylic cases for IN-18 clocks..
http://www.pvelectronics.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=18&products_id=58 It wasn't cheap or easy to do either....;-) Nick On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Dieter Waechter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > yes that's right. > Note the protopype cases cost about 1000 EUR, the other parts, equipment, > programming, tools, about 4500 EUR. > I know that a acrylic case is fast, cheap and very easy to do. > But I reall NEVER would pack a IN-18 clock in a plastic case. > Dieter > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lucky" <[email protected]> > To: "neonixie-l" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 1:23 PM > Subject: [neonixie-l] Re: IN-18 Blue Dream Nixie Clock available now!!! > > > I think it's a great clock stuffed full of features and would really > like one but I too think it is on the expensive side. 179 Euro (inc > tax I'm in the UK) just for the board kit + you have to buy the needed > transformer @24 Euro + the colons @19 Euro separately! Surely a > critical part (transformer) should be included in the basic kit? > Agreeing that Cobra007 is not comparing like for like the sven board > is still only 119 Euro WITH tubes or we could look at Konstantins > IN-18 board WITH tubes for 300 Euro. > > I suppose Dieter has priced it to recoup his development costs > although the case is overpriced imho and I would not buy it, and as > for "the surface finish was developed exclusively for those clocks - I > can only imagine that this took quite some time to work out. " I think > you/we are getting carried away with the advertising spin after all > there is only so many finishes you can achieve and I'm sure this has > been done before somewhere. I don't mind being contradicted on the > finish but I would like to know what this "exclusive" finish is then > > Nice clock, shame about the price, shame about the confusing multisite > ordering, it's impossible to even make up a barebones kit without > multiple ordering, something to consider. > On 9 Feb, 09:43, jb-electronics <[email protected]> wrote: > -- > 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 neonixie-l+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <neonixie-l%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB<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.
