Our bedroom clock has 8 tubes (b7971), and is PIR activated. Needless to say, it's very bright when on. I set the timeout to 100 seconds, and I dont ever recall being awakened by the display turning-on. A future project is to modify the code so it reports how many times the PIR sensor was triggered during the night. I dont use any kind of dimming, mainly because people have reported audible noise from tubes that use PWM dimming.
Both of our kids (now grown and moved-out) built 6-tube clocks with b5092 tubes, and they never complained about the seconds ticking-away at night; they actually liked it, sort of like counting sheep, etc. I think flip-dots would drive me crazy.....even the mechanical flip-style clocks that were prevalent in the 1970's were a bit annoying. -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/bde66e6a-11c2-43a4-850f-0c85ca3faffb%40googlegroups.com.
