![]() ![]() Who can make anything, and the result was fantastic (top figure). ![]() To hold the tubes and the electronics that would drive them. Henk van Aken from the mechanical workshop to make a beautifull housing To donate six ZM1030 NIXIE tubes he had lying around. When I finally received my PhD (2 june 2004), Jacco and Eugene Timmering At that moment I was writing my thesis, which practically consumed Idea of a nice drawing room assesoiry! The second obstacle was the lack of I always end upįitting my projects into luncheon boxes or transparant cereals containers.Īlthough I have a very understanding wife, this is unfortunately not her Making the electronic part of the clock is no problem,īut making a descent box around it is for me impossible. Which prevented me from actually building a clock. NIXIE driver ICs that were about to be thrown away together with a wholeĬhest full of obsolete TTL ICs. Somewhere in 2003 the NIXIE clockįever rose to an alarming level when I run into a bunch (50!) of old 74141 ![]() With electronics in his spare time and therefor could understand myįascination for these glowing tubes. Over the years I built up a smallĬollection of NIXIE tubes, always having in mind that one day I would buildĪ few years ago a shared my room at work with Jacco van der Hoeven.Īlthough Jacco is a mechanic by profession, he also likes to experiment Īt that time I had no clue about the working of digital ICs (I was twelve),īut this was something I could understand. Which used a mechanical clock to switch the cathodes of the tubes. One of these magazines contained a description of a poor man's NIXIE clock Of course I could not understand everything that was in them. My father used to buy, from time to time, electronics magazines which I as Interface the 5V TTL world with the high voltage NIXIE tubes. What a curious component it is, designed to The other hand they were used to display the results from the children On one hand they were obviously a product from the radio tube area, and on One of the things that makes them so fascinating is that they are so visablyĪ monument of a time when a revolution in electronics was taking place. I think that this was the beginning of my life long fascination for Just by touching one of the cathodes it was possible to make the numbers We mounted one of them on a wooden sigar box and connected theĪnode via a large series resistance to the live wire of the 220V mains! When I was about ten my father brought a few NIXIE tubes with him homeįrom work (ZM1020 and B5092, I still have them see photograph). NIXIE I NIXIE clock using six ZM1030 tubes. NIXIE I, NIXIE clock using six ZM1030 tubes. ![]()
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