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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2011, 02:37:22 pm »
Good to see the build is going well chap  :happy2: That K155 driver looks very new to me, must be a 90s production one.
What's the micro on there, I can see it's by Microchip so guessing it's a PIC16 of some kind? VCC and HV numbers look good  :drinking:
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2011, 05:08:36 pm »
You have an eagle eye... its a PIC16F1936, whatever the heck that is!  :scared:

All the board and components are new... its just the tubes that are old.  :happy2:
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2011, 05:30:28 pm »
Well.. its done. Taken me about 5 hours today and about  2 hours yesterday. Im over the moon with it  :ashamed:



Nixie Clock by Rich Wigley, on Flickr



Nixie Clock by Rich Wigley, on Flickr



Nixie Clock by Rich Wigley, on Flickr



Nixie Clock by Rich Wigley, on Flickr



Nixie Clock by Rich Wigley, on Flickr


It will look even better once I make a nice wooden case for it go in!

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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2011, 05:51:02 pm »
That looks top mate  :happy2: Looks very smart.

Quote from: richwig83 on February 11, 2011, 05:08:36 pm
You have an eagle eye... its a PIC16F1936, whatever the heck that is!  :scared:

All the board and components are new... its just the tubes that are old.  :happy2:

It's a pretty standard 16-bit microcontroller, I used an earlier version (16F877A) in quite a few projects at uni and at home so I'm quite familiar with the family.
Nowadays no one makes their own micro boards, they just use an Arduino...

Reason I comment on the newness of the K155 driver is that they aren't made any more! The drivers I used on my clock were 80s-vintage, and IIRC production must've stopped in the mid-nineties unless someone's restarted. OC all the other bits apart from the tubes will be brand new.
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #19 on: February 11, 2011, 05:54:29 pm »
looking good boy's

y after reading this am i thinkin off buying one for myself to build  :stupid: :stupid:

this place certainly knows how 2 make u spend money even if it aint car related  :signLOL:  :signLOL:
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #20 on: February 11, 2011, 05:57:31 pm »
Quote from: cmdrfire on February 11, 2011, 05:51:02 pm
That looks top mate  :happy2: Looks very smart.

Quote from: richwig83 on February 11, 2011, 05:08:36 pm
You have an eagle eye... its a PIC16F1936, whatever the heck that is!  :scared:

All the board and components are new... its just the tubes that are old.  :happy2:

It's a pretty standard 16-bit microcontroller, I used an earlier version (16F877A) in quite a few projects at uni and at home so I'm quite familiar with the family.
Nowadays no one makes their own micro boards, they just use an Arduino...

Reason I comment on the newness of the K155 driver is that they aren't made any more! The drivers I used on my clock were 80s-vintage, and IIRC production must've stopped in the mid-nineties unless someone's restarted. OC all the other bits apart from the tubes will be brand new.

Of course.... haha otherwise they would be in a right mess. Sometimes i aint too quick!
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2011, 05:58:21 pm »
Quote from: Gti_Mad on February 11, 2011, 05:54:29 pm
looking good boy's

y after reading this am i thinkin off buying one for myself to build  :stupid: :stupid:

this place certainly knows how 2 make u spend money even if it aint car related  :signLOL:  :signLOL:

LOL... i figured this was cheaper than a remap!  :signLOL:
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #22 on: February 11, 2011, 06:06:48 pm »
Here's one i made earlier on the iPad :laugh: :laugh:

Landscape Mode



Portrait Mode


 

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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #23 on: February 11, 2011, 06:12:00 pm »
 :surprised:

How dare you ruin a thread of valvey win with your digital nonsense!  :signLOL:
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #24 on: February 11, 2011, 06:46:53 pm »
^^^
It's alright Rich - his tubes won't have that lovely warm Soviet glow that ours do  :drinking:

Quote from: Gti_Mad on February 11, 2011, 05:54:29 pm
looking good boy's

y after reading this am i thinkin off buying one for myself to build  :stupid: :stupid:

this place certainly knows how 2 make u spend money even if it aint car related  :signLOL:  :signLOL:

These are lovely little devices to have, and getting scarce as the world supply of Nixie tubes is used up. They don't make them any more!

I was actually wondering where Rich's IN-8 tubes come from as I thought the supply of them was exhausted a couple of years ago. Someone must've found another warehouse full of them!  :laugh:
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #25 on: February 12, 2011, 10:35:09 am »
Just found out these tubes were made in 1980.... older than me!  :notworthy:
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #26 on: February 14, 2011, 12:05:02 am »
This thread makes me want to break out my soldering iron and relive some of gcse electronics days.

All you guys need are some flux capacitors and time circuits.... :signLOL:
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #27 on: February 14, 2011, 12:22:00 am »
Quote from: stealthwolf on February 14, 2011, 12:05:02 am
This thread makes me want to break out my soldering iron and relive some of gcse electronics days.

All you guys need are some flux capacitors and time circuits.... :signLOL:

LOL, one of the fun things to do in life is go to a PC World and ask them if they had any flux capacitors in stock, the guy would go off to check and then you could make your hasty exit!  :signLOL:

Didn't use to work in Maplin though, those guys were too geeky  :rolleye:
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #28 on: February 14, 2011, 12:32:03 am »
Im going to plan out a case tomorrow. Im also going to see about modifying a top air vent to house the clock with the tubes poking out of the top of the grill.  :smiley:
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Re: Nixie Clock Project
« Reply #29 on: February 15, 2011, 12:19:11 pm »
Great thread guys.  :party: :party: :party:
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