Description
The Wemos Nixie Clock is a beautiful mix of old and new, resulting in a high accuracy, low
power clock which will be a talking point in your home.
The clock has the following features:
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Latest technology, highly reliable and accurate.
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Tried and tested design, with many hundreds of clocks sold.
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Based on the Wemos micro-controller with inbuilt WiFi
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Low power consumption.
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Long tube life: Anti Cathode Poisoning (ACP) and configurable blanking makes sure that
the tubes will stay healthy for many years with no intervention from you.
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The multiplexed display and automatic dimming used in this design extends the life of
the tubes indefinitely. Some other designs run the tubes too “hard”, and this causes a
rapid degradation in the useful life of the tube.
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All settings are stored in non-volatile memory. Once they are set, they are remembered
forever, or until you change them again.
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RGB back lighting allows you to set the the color of the back lighting to practically any
color you desire.
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Ambient light sensing, with automatic tube dimming, which sets the tube and LED
brightness according to the light conditions. This also increases tube life.
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Absolutely silent operation. Some Nixie clocks emit an irritating “buzz” or “hiss” which is
especially annoying if you keep the clock in a bedroom.
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Automatic week day or weekend blanking, extends the life of tubes even further
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Automatic time of day blanking, can blank between a start hour and an end hour, on
week days, weekends or every day
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Configurable suppression of Anti Cathode Poisoning when the clock is fully dimmed. In
the middle of the night, all the digits lighting up at full brightness could be disturbing.
You can choose to stop ACP when the clock is fully dimmed
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Extremely accurate timekeeping using Internet based atomic time sources:
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The time never drifts, is always right to within 1 second.
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Automatically compensates for Daylight Savings Time changes, leap years and
seconds.
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Has a local RTC back up chip to keep time if the Internet is not available
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The controller can be programmed without removing it from the board, using “OTA”
(Over the Air) updates
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Has support for a motion sensor
