Really nice!

Thanks for sharing the circuit diagram!

Did you try to use them as proper trigger tubes and not just as neon tubes?

/Martin

On Thursday, 24 December 2020 at 19:13:10 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
>
>

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