[sdiy] My awesome DIY Christmas gift

[Paul Maddox]

FWIW,

  The clock I have has a tube saver mode, so you can choose what times  
of day the tues are turned on and off.

  So I have it set to come on around 7pm, and go off around 11pm, i.e.  
the time of day I'm usually in my "electronics lab".

Paul

On 19 Dec 2008, at 20:43, Matthew Smith wrote:

> Quoth John Mahoney at 2008-12-20 02:27...
>> My dream clock has nixie tubes.
>
> I've got some Nixie tubes which I have found to be unsuitable for  
> clock duty due to their short working life (by design - about a year  
> of continuous operation.)
>
> Been thinking of putting them in the MIDI control surface that I'm  
> designing - but driven by ICs.  Just looking at that clock with all  
> those transistors makes my carpal tunnels flare up ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> M
>
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