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Anyway, the tubes are pretty expensive now, but the author of the TechMoan YouTube blog has come across an alternative that gets the Nixie look, without any vacuum tubes at all, instead using a stack of edge-lit acrylic sheets for each digit.. He is reviewing the Cronixie in the blog (pictured), which is apparently inspired by the Lixie - what an inspired idea.
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25 Jun 2018 12 min read Nixies Reborn: This clock features modern-day Nixie tubes made by Dalibor Farny. The Czech engineer has revived the manufacture of the distinctive display devices, which had their heyday in the late 1950s and 1960s. Photo: Dalibor Farny
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by Chris Woodford. Last updated: February 22, 2023. Night-time is painted with neon: if you want to make a darkened city fizz with life, you can't go far wrong with neon lamps. These flashing tubes of color are like light sabers, slicing through our atavistic fears of the dark and making our urban spaces buzz into life.
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I was hovering between a really cheap plastic one , not even nixie tubes with 175 dollars , or a 500 dollar past indicator nixie clock, really confused on what to choose between those if I should get the good one but expensive or a decent one but cheap
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22 petemate • 11 yr. ago Because there are no real takers. Hobbyists that need six tubes once or twice in their lifetime aren't a source of income. You need someone that will unload tons of those for large-scale production 25 Filmore • 11 yr. ago Let's say you can sell 10,000 of them each year at $6 a pop. A $60,000/yr revenue business is bad.
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8 Sort by: Open comment sort options Add a Comment marc2912 • 10 yr. ago Having done a LOT of research on Nixie tube and bought some I would say ebay is your best place. As someone noted NOS is what you want. Do some research on the type of tube you're looking for, some are quite expensive.
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M. De Cristofaro used an ex-Soviet IVL2-7/5 VFD tube as the core for his Cyberpunk Wristwatch, which adds steampunk notes in the form of a brass "roll cage" around the tube. A Nixie tube watch as envisioned by Ryaznov Design
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Why are they so expensive is the manufacturing process that intense that they're no longer made, making the current supply worth more? (Supply vs demand) Without doing much research, isn't it the same as any other vacuum tube/light bulb with the exception of 10 filaments instead of 1? 5 6 comments Best Add a Comment [deleted] • 8 yr. ago Linker3000
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Nixie tubes come in a lot of different sizes but I wanted one with a giant digit. If you sort this list by symbol height (not an exhaustive list, but the person running the site seems to have a lot of tubes!), two of the largest ones are the Z568M and the IN-18, both with 50mm digits. The Z568M is the largest European nixie tube.
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The Gelfman IN-16 Nixie is the first higher-end timepiece to sport vintage Nixie tubes, all in a refined package with fun and wearability in mind. I want to note that there are some less expensive non-luxury Nixie tube watches on the market. Not all of them have the nicer-looking Nixie tubes and many of them are shoddy or basic in their.
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The Blub Nixie Clock is constructed with a single Nixie tube that displays the entire clock. Because it only has one tube, it is less expensive than other Nixie clocks and thus more widely available.
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So why are nixie tubes expensive? One reason is simply the law of supply and demand. Nixie tubes were produced decades ago and were not manufactured in large quantities, making them rare and hard to come by today. As a result, the demand for nixie tubes far exceeds the supply, leading to higher prices. Another factor is the cost of production.
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A Nixie tube ( English: / ˈnɪk.siː / NIK-see ), or cold cathode display, [1] is an electronic device used for displaying numerals or other information using glow discharge . Inside a broken Nixie tube The glass tube contains a wire-mesh anode and multiple cathodes, shaped like numerals or other symbols.
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Gerrit Coetzee October 4, 2016 Three years ago we covered [Dalibor Farnby]'s adventures in making his own Nixie tubes. Back then it was just a hobby, a kind of exploration into the past. He.
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Hi all!Welcome to the first video I've made to go along with my personal engineering blog: https://neonkev.com/My life changed after discovering nixie tubes;.
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As for driving a nixie-tubes - this will seem even more odd -. Early LED numeric displays were tiny and expensive, so there were a lot of competing ideas for displays that all made sense.