PV Electronics Nixie QTC Plus, Assembly Instructions And User Manual

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Nixie Tube Clock ‘Nixie QTC+’
2 (01 October 2018)
www.pvelectronics.co.uk
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1. INT
RODUCTION
1.1 Nixie QTC Plus - Features
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Hours, Minutes and Seconds display
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Drives a wide range of medium sized solder-in tubes
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Uses a Quartz Crystal Oscillator as the timebase
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12 or 24 hour modes
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Programmable leading zero blanking
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Date display in either DD.MM.YY or MM.DD.YY or YY.MM.DD format
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Programmable date display each minute
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Scrolling display of date or standard display
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Alarm, with programmable snooze period
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Optional GPS / WiFi / XTERNA synchronisation with status indicator LED
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Dedicated DST button to switch between DST and standard time
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Supercapacitor backup. Keeps time during short power outages
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Simple time setting using two buttons
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Configurable for leading zero blanking
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Double dot colon neon lamps
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11 colon neon modes including AM / PM indication (top / bottom or left /
right), railroad (slow or fast) etc.
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Seconds can be reset to zero to precisely the set time
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Programmable night mode - blanked or dimmed display to save tubes or
prevent sleep disturbance
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Rear Indicator LEDs dim at night to prevent sleep disturbance
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Weekday aware ‘Master Blank’ function to turn off tubes and LEDs on
weekends or during working hours
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Separate modes for colon neons during night mode
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Standard, fading, or crossfading with scrollback display modes
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‘Slot Machine’ Cathode poisoning prevention routine
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Programmable RGB tube lighting – select your favourite colour palette
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729 colours possible. Have a different colour or your choosing every
hour, or autochanging colours
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Not AC frequency dependent – works in all countries
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All user preferences stored to non-volatile memory
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Additional wireless functions if XTERNA module used:
- Display of outdoor temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Configurable.
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Min / Max temperature in last 24 hours
- Wireless, Auto Sync of time from GPS with auxilliary TCXO
- GPS Sync time, and time since last GPS Fix
- Voltage of XTERNA module battery