Wow, very nice work. I love it with the panaplex display. On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 1:26 AM, gregebert <[email protected]> wrote:
> > <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 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/9aa2f110-a8d6-44a3-8b35-065b26cc7bb7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAJrqPH8C4216DPEWMbes3nm3646ECwhH5arav4PhLApkGEskfw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
