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On Thursday, February 23, 2017 at 7:25:10 PM UTC-5, I wrote: > > That sounds really very cool. Any size, within reason that anyone would > want, and much less expensive than Rodan CD47's. Engrave your own, if > you're good at that sort of thing, or have it done somewhere. Multi > colored LED's would also be cool. And just to make sure that the clock > contained some 'neon', use neon lamps for the colons. Ira. > > > On 2/23/2017 3:20 PM, NeonJohn wrote: > > You could use the modern version of the old edge-lit displays. A stack > > of plex sheets engraved with the numbers and edge-lit with LEDs. That > > would be even more authentic because the numbers would approach and > > recede as they change values, just like in a real Nixie. > > > > John > > > > > > On 02/23/2017 05:10 PM, gregebert wrote: > >> One of the (many) projects in the back of my head is a 'beer bottle > nixie > >> tube', basically cutting-off the top of a brown beer bottle and > inserting a > >> PC board with orange LED's arranged like nixie numerals. The tinted > glass > >> would obscure most of the PC board, and blur the LEDs so it would have > a > >> fighting chance to look nixie-ish. > >> > >> Trust me, I could make a decent enough clock with 6 of these without > >> spending 15,000 euros.... > >> > > -- 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/8fcceffb-eca6-4706-a7a2-1eaa72629aca%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
