Does it? Or is that just the way you perceive it? On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 4:38:26 PM UTC-5, I wrote: > > I don't know when I last laughed so hard, or had such a big smile on my > face. I think that's just great. VERY creative. I really like when you > reverse the decatron, it stops going 'tick-tock',,,,,,,and instead goes > 'tock-tick'. LOL. Good for you, and many thanks, Ira. > > > > > On 7/21/2015 1:35 PM, PsyPhi wrote: > > Hello everyone! I've been lurking on this list sporadically for a few > months, and now that I have something specific to share/contribute I > decided to join. > I've been a "mad scientist" all my life, and have always been fond of > tubes. After seeing several examples of nixie clocks on the web, I wanted > to build one of my own. Using all tubes, of course. Soon I realized that > the R&D was going to be much more fun than the actual implemention. > Deriving a stable 1-Hz clock pulse from the 60-Hz power line (yeah, I'm in > the US), dividing/counting pulses, driving the nixie tubes - all exciting > challenges. But wait, after I get one digit working I have to make 5 more > just like it to actually display the time? Too tedious for someone as ADHD > as myself. So I settled on a one-digit design - no, still too tedious - how > about just one bit? Display only zero and one, but precisely synchronized. > Great; I can do that much. But the result would be kinda boring. If it > doesn't tell time, it should at least go "tick-tock" like a respectable > clock. So this is what I came up with: > Time Machine on youtube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seaAFlPyKX8> > > -- > 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] <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/bf9789a8-56b1-42d3-80c4-326adfef223e%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > >
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