Nixie tube clock 1950's cold war replica
Very cool stuff! 
I've always loved the concept of nixie tube clocks, and own a couple of them, along with parts to make a few more, and some vintage test equipment which uses nixie tubes. I wish I had the skills to build something of this sort; most of the ideas I have for clocks involve the usual "tubes sitting on top of a box", though I'd like to subvert that. Here's a picture of a nixie tube clock which I found at a hamfest several years ago; it was built by someone in the early '70s as a kit, and makes no big show of the fact that it uses nixie tubes for its digital display, just of the fact that, unlike most timepieces of the era, that it was a DIGITAL CLOCK. 
I've always loved the concept of nixie tube clocks, and own a couple of them, along with parts to make a few more, and some vintage test equipment which uses nixie tubes. I wish I had the skills to build something of this sort; most of the ideas I have for clocks involve the usual "tubes sitting on top of a box", though I'd like to subvert that. Here's a picture of a nixie tube clock which I found at a hamfest several years ago; it was built by someone in the early '70s as a kit, and makes no big show of the fact that it uses nixie tubes for its digital display, just of the fact that, unlike most timepieces of the era, that it was a DIGITAL CLOCK.
Goodwill_HiFi
Super Member
How much power do Nixies pull compared to "regular" digital..... I don't even know what technology they are, the red/orange readouts.
According to Wikipedia, a nixie tube only draws a few milliamperes when glowing. A nixie tube is a cold cathode device, which means that, unlike a numitron tube, it doesn't use a heated filament in order to glow, but rather neon gas. Of course, the nixie tube does involve a much higher voltage than LEDs, usually somewhere around 180V.
-Adam
Teti
Pioneer hoarder
AS IF, mine is very amateurish approach to this topic, I haven't even used proper 19" dimensions. For my next project I've already nicked some 19" rack telecom frames
Teti
Pioneer hoarder
Hey,glad you're back!!
Ain't it funny how life and responsibilities get in the way of the stuff that we actually want to do,eh?
Nice to see this progressing once again
Thank you, clock been finished almost 2 years ago, I just didn't have time to put it on the web lol. House is finished, but we starting our house extension now, so hopefully after that I'll build external 10Mhz OCXO module for this clock. And next project will be pure relay clock (you can find some on youtube).
Teti
Pioneer hoarder
Two 555 timers, little chip amp LM386 with bypass cap and big fat speaker do the magic