<https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9IM-biyOxos/VWajNb6RkuI/AAAAAAAAAB4/vrZTqsArFzQ/s1600/DSCN5264.JPG> After 2 years of work, I finally finished my first (and only) "nixie" watch....... OK, so it's panaplex watch....whatever. I still dont know how long the battery life is. When I did accelerated battery-life testing on my demo board a few months ago, it extrapolated to about 2.5 months. So far, it's gone a bit longer than that on a full-charge and there's still a nice charge on it.
The sad story about this watch is that *after* I sealed the case (yep, permanently...), then the charging terminal for the battery developed a broken connection. Murphy's Law....So I must either destroy the handmade plexiglass case, which took many hours to build, or drill some tiny holes into it so I can pin-probe the battery terminals to charge it. It's a ridiculous thing to wear because of the size and weight; I'll see what the other engineers at work say about it tomorrow. They think I'm a tad kooky to design a watch with a 40+ year-old display when my day-job is designing 10nm ICs. Heh-heh....notice I didn't show how tall the watch is in the photo....it aint no iWatch. Probably 1 inch tall. I just finished it in a nick of time, too. My wife and I saw "Tomorrowland" last weekend and she was awed by Goerge Clooney's IN-18 nixie clock and gave me an assignment to build one for her. Definitely the best task on my honey-do list......will it really be 12 tubes, or only 6. Still pondering that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/9aa2f110-a8d6-44a3-8b35-065b26cc7bb7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
