As promised earlier, more detailed information, including schematics, about my clock is now on my website: https://www.pa3fwm.nl/projects/neonclock2/
Regards, Pieter-Tjerk On Thursday, December 24, 2020 at 7:13:10 PM UTC+1 Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote: > > I recently completed a nixie clock without any transistors, > microcontrollers or other ICs, instead using trigger tubes to implement the > digital counters: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3PBJUcKeoo > > Actually, I'm not even using the 'trigger' function of these tubes, they > are just used as neon lamps with a large difference between strike and > maintaining voltage. It's this difference which allows one to build > counters with them. I'll publish a more detailed description on my website > later on. > > Some may know that I built a similar clock over ten years ago: > http://pa3fwm.nl/projects/neonclock/ > That clock used regular NE-2 style neon lamps for the logic; unfortunately > it became unreliable, as the lamps' properties changed with time. I hope > the new clock will turn out to be more reliable... > > Regards, > Pieter-Tjerk > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/0c3446bc-4850-4848-94a2-1b9a5a04c9a7n%40googlegroups.com.
