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Fixing old Nixie Clock (3) ?

Posted on2023-01-021 Comment

Well, maybe you remember the previous posts about my dad’s nixie clock? I was very satisfied when I got it working again. Now, after 8 months it finally broke down completely. Oh well, it lasted for (I think) over forty years! New beginnings I decided to take the guts out… Read the rest

Fixing old Nixie Clock (3)

Posted on2022-04-282022-04-28

Capacitor replaced The replacement of the power supply capacitor with a new one cleaned up the pulses nicely. The clock is running properly again for about two days now.… Read the rest

Fixing old Nixie Clock (2)

Posted on2022-04-232022-04-233 Comments

Remember that old Nixie Clock? For a while it ran properly, but now it skips time again at random intervals. So I got that big capacitor out that I suspected right away, because it has been in there for over 40 years. And unlike me, these things do not age… Read the rest

Fixing old Nixie Clock (1)

Posted on2022-04-102022-11-22

Father’s clock My father built a Nixie clock in ‘ye olden days‘, over forty years ago… It was a relatively simple design compared to what we build nowadays. Design and simplified workings The clock derives it’s clock-pulses from the mains power, 50 Hz here in the Netherlands Dividing it by… Read the rest

Another new clock

Posted on2023-07-16

Remember that Making a new clock (1) blog post? That one was to honour my dad’s old nixie clock. It’s in my office / HAM shack. Now we wanted another clock for another room. I decided to use the same parts and the same software, but built it a lot… Read the rest

Making a new clock (1)

Posted on2023-01-022023-01-202 Comments

As you could have read in my previous post, I decided to create my own digital clock to replace the old nixie clock (R.I.P). Components The components I will be using are: The casing of the old nixie clock An Arduino Uno (for programming the ATMEGA328p chip. Actually that chip… Read the rest