Nixie

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:21 pm

I was digging in the Frost Cave (my basement) and I found a box full of Nixie Tube. Put voltage in a couple and they power on. So I went on the net and found Kevin Hortons Nixie Project.

This looks a little complicated though so I dont know what to do with them. I hate how they sit around

EDIT-Sorry I i was just at another thread guess HOrton hates hotlinker
http://www.tripoint.org/kevtris/Project ... _Front.jpg

gotchocolatemilk2 · Post by **gotchocolatemilk2** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:03 pm

whats nixie tube? I've heard of it before but don't rember what it was from

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:10 pm

its a vacume tube that display letters/numbers. I have a old calculator that uses them but the lead acid battery exploded

gotchocolatemilk2 · Post by **gotchocolatemilk2** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:14 pm

yeah the one guy made a clock from them I remeber now

xxxeagle · Post by **xxxeagle** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 6:39 pm

yeah i just looked them up on ebay they look like theyre about the size of an led.

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:09 pm

Small ones I have big ones like pepper shaker size

xxxeagle · Post by **xxxeagle** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:13 pm

cool how much you think you could get for them on ebay.

Post by **gannon** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:58 pm

It's been stated many a time that you truly can not call yourself a geeky modder unless you build yourself a nixie tube clock. And although the prospect seems nice, I'd rather build a binary LED clock

JackFrost22 · Post by **JackFrost22** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:57 pm

Yeah. i really want to build a clock. You know dust off one of my oscilliscopes.

Test out a clock circuit. Maybe put a shocking al;arm with those pads on the AEDs one on each nipple..this is getting wierd nevermind

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:43 am

gannon wrote:It's been stated many a time that you truly can not call yourself a geeky modder unless you build yourself a nixie tube clock. And although the prospect seems nice, I'd rather build a binary LED clock

http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/

Ooohh... Binary clock... *drools*