User manual – Glass Clock Design #3
rev 1.2
1 Glass Clock Design #3
Congratulations on your purchase of this unique timepiece! This clock uses Cold
War era Nixie display tubes. The old is mixed with the new, using a RISC
processor based single chip computer – which has more processing power than the
old computers that originally used these Nixie tubes.
The case is all optically clear Simax glass and clear acrylic support pieces to
complement the glass vacuum tube construction of the Nixies.
“Стекло часы Дизайн номер 3”, or “Glass Clock Design #3” is the third design
for my Nixie tube based clock. It uses a microprocessor that multiplexes 3 tubes
by 2 (meaning 2 tubes are on at a time, with 3 sets of 2). SMD (surface mount)
construction is used throughout. A high efficiency high voltage power supply is
used to generate the 180v required for the Soviet Nixie tubes.
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