Thank you! It was a fun little project.

On Saturday, October 31, 2020 at 11:54:51 PM UTC-4 Richard Scales wrote:

> Nice Rack Clock, great work.
>
> - Richard
>
>
> On Saturday, 31 October 2020 20:47:55 UTC, Peter Doroba wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm new to the group.  I've been tinkering with Nixies on and off after 
>> discovering them while watching a movie (Tomorrow Land) with my youngest 
>> son some years ago.  I started with a Spectrum IN-18 kit from pvelectronics 
>> about 6 years ago and then their funclock kit that I gifted to my mom (I 
>> honestly just wanted the enjoyment of assembling the kit).  I discovered 
>> Dalibor's Zen clock and while it wasn't a kit I had to own one.  It's now 
>> the centerpiece of our living room.
>>
>> Over the last several years I continued to collect tubes and some kits 
>> but, didn't have the time to assemble them due to work and home improvement 
>> projects around the house.  In recent months with the impact COVID has had 
>> on my industry I've found more time to tinker.  We renovated our garage a 
>> few weeks back clearing out a lot of useless items and giving me the room 
>> to update my workspace.  Since then I've been on a tear assembling a few 
>> kits I've had in storage for months and even years.
>>
>> All that is to say that I finally found the time and space to renew a 
>> piece of surplus government equipment that I bought over a year ago on 
>> eBay.  The label that had been on the front of the device indicated that it 
>> had been from Ft. Meade MD.  Old NSA equipment?  I really don't know.  It 
>> had been completely gutted except for the nixie display and driver board 
>> (b-5440's) and the power supply.  I disassembled it, cleaned it up, and 
>> installed a arduino clock board from nixieclock.biz.  It's now on 
>> display in my garage over my workspace. :)
>>
>> Pete[image: 768-1024.jpg][image: 768-1025.jpg][image: 768-1026.jpg][image: 
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>> 768-1030.jpg]
>>
>>

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