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What voltage do nixie tubes run on?
170 volts
Nixie tubes require high voltages (>170 volts) to illuminate. A single anode is connected to a high voltage source via a dropping resistor and cathodes shaped like numbers are grounded to make them illuminate. Drivers, then, must be capable of withstanding the driving voltage.
How much power does a nixie clock use?
They only consume about 3 to 4 Watts of power, and consequently generate almost no heat. The tubes are not hot or even warm to the touch. Please see this excellent article on Wikipedia about nixie tubes.
Are Nixie tubes poisonous?
A weighted burn-in procedure keeps the IN-4 Nixie tubes cathode poison free. For the iN-4 Nixie tubes, the 0,4,3, and 9 are susceptible to cathode poisoning if the digits are displayed even the same amount.
Can You Make your own Nixie clock board?
Information is provided here to make your own PCB for this design. The design can be built as a single PCB, or the tube section can be seperated to make a compact unit with the electronics vertically mounted behind the tubes. The main part of the board can also be seperated and hard-wired to tubes with different pinouts to the ones I used.
Can a Nixie tube clock be brought back to life?
Well, now you can bring them back to life! Build a Nixie TubeDigital Clock Warning! As this design uses a transformerless power supply, the whole circuit is at mains potential. Disconnect before making any adjustments etc.
How to build a Nixie tube cable TV box?
Nixie tube & driver sources and data Nixie clock emulator for Windows Nixie clock articlein IEEE Spectrum magazine. A nixie tube cable TV box. An All-Valve nixie clock
Where can I find a Nixie tube clock emulator?
An Online nixie Clock. Nixie tube & driver sources and data Nixie clock emulator for Windows Nixie clock articlein IEEE Spectrum magazine. A nixie tube cable TV box.