Nixie Clock - six IN-14 tubes - built by Sanyal Labs
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Uploaded by thesanyalfamily on May 5, 2008
A nixie tube is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information. The glass tube contains a wire-mesh anode, and multiple cathodes in the shape of Arabic numerals. Applying power to one cathode surrounds it with an orange glow discharge. The tube is filled with a gas at low pressure, usually mostly neon and often a little mercury and/or argon, in a Penning mixture. The most common form of nixie tube has ten cathodes in the shapes of the numerals 0 to 9 (and occasionally a decimal point or two), but there are also types that show various letters, signs and symbols. A related device is the pixie tube, which uses a stencil mask with numeral-shaped holes instead of shaped cathodes. Some Russian nixies, e.g. the IN-14, used an upside-down digit 2 as the digit 5, presumably to save manufacturing costs as there is no obvious technical or aesthetic reason.
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All Comments (11)
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@bonecrime In Australia this is described as 'on the piss'.
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nice job, what PIC did you use?
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FUCK YEAH ECHOES
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Love it. The tilted tubes add to it, they make it look like both an art form and a working machine, and not just something made to gather just on a shelf looking perfect.
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I would totally love to see these in my guitar amp haha
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Gosh now I need one of these. This reminded me how much I love the song echoes too btw
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yeah - they look crazy, don't they. I ran out of patience and each of these tubes had ten wires going into ten little holes ... should have spent more time to straighten them - but I was too eager to see if it worked !
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I agree. I think they would look better being vertical. But... It works. Nice job anyway.
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This is beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
hotgta 2 years ago
thanks for your kind words, hotgta.
thesanyalfamily 2 years ago
not adapted - these are standard Russian military surplus tubes.
thesanyalfamily 3 years ago
What's the music?
1959Edsel 3 years ago
Pink Floyd - Echoes
thesanyalfamily 3 years ago