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April 14, 2018
Description
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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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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Automatic roll mode
– periodically rolls through all digits on all locations to
check that the display is healthy. This is normal and part of the ACP
strategy.
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RGB back lighting allows you to set the color of the back lighting to
practically any color you desire.
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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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Silent operation. Some Nixie clock designs emit an irritating “buzz” or
“hiss” which is especially annoying if you keep the clock in a bedroom.
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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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Automatic week day or weekend blanking strategies available to extend
the life of your tubes
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Automatic time of day blanking (see basic settings “05”), can blank
between a start hour and an end hour, on week days, weekends or every
day
This clock is equipped with an WIFI time provider. It makes sure that your clock is
always right, (even when daylight savings change), and never drifts because the time
is synchronized with the internet’s atomic clocks. The option has the following
features:
• Configure and forget. It just runs. No intervention necessary ever.
• The time never drifts – it is always right within 1 second, year after year, even
after daylight savings time changes.
• Really simple configuration: You just enter your WIFI SSID and password,
and the time zone, and the rest happens automatically.
• Logs into your WIFI network. You configure the module with the credentials,
and it remembers the settings forever, or until they change.
• Low power consumption.
• All settings are stored in non-volatile memory. Once they are set, they are
remembered forever, or until you change them again.
• Configure the clock setting from the web interface. Makes setting up the
clock easy and quick.
