What speed are you running the dekatrons ? On Sunday, May 16, 2021 at 10:57:30 AM UTC-7 iavine wrote:
> That is a cool design > > On 16 May 2021, at 17:10, Jon <deka...@nomotron.com> wrote: > > > > The discussion in a recent thread about different glow patterns on a > dekatron reminds me that it’s high time I shared with you my latest clock… > This is Dekachron, a 3 tube dekatron clock. > > > <Dekachron main view (cropped).jpg> > > Just to explain what’s going on here - Dekachron uses a rather different > way of displaying time than the approach used by most dekatron clocks (eg > those by Ronald Dekker and Andreas Reinert). Typically one would have tubes > arranged in pairs like a nixie clock, indicating the hours (tens and > units), minutes (tens and units) and maybe seconds too. The position of the > glowing dot on the dekatron display denotes the digit value. So we’d > display 08:25 like this: > > > <Display HHMM.png> > > However, Dekachron uses its dekatrons as a series of analogue clock faces, > one for hours, one for minutes and one for seconds. On each one it lights > up a sector of the circular display that corresponds to the position of the > relevant hand on a traditional analogue clock. So Dekachron displays 08:25 > like this: > > > > > <Display HM.png> > > It's surprisingly easy to read with a little practice, because it taps > into how you learned to tell the time as a child. Displaying the time in > this way allows us to get a H:M:S display with only three tubes and also > opens the door to all kinds of funky visual effects, some of which are > shown in this short video (https://youtu.be/5LtvPJZnqM8). > > If anyone is interested to build a Dekachron, a few kits are available – > PM me. > > Jon. > > -- > 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+...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/86cfd127-5ef7-4d34-9ee7-9d151b78a07an%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/86cfd127-5ef7-4d34-9ee7-9d151b78a07an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > <Display HM.png> > <Dekachron main view (cropped).jpg> > <Display HHMM.png> > > -- 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/3de02a80-c890-45b8-9a6f-86525990568cn%40googlegroups.com.
