The Coolest Clock Ever: Made of "Vacuum Tubes" / Nixie Tubes

A Nixie tube does not have any filaments or heaters. A Nixie tube's operation does not depend on thermionic emission of electrons from a heated cathode. It is therefore called a cold-cathode tube. The glass tube contains a wire-mesh anode and multiple cathodes, shaped like numerals or other symbols. Applying power to one cathode surrounds it with an orange glow discharge. The tube is filled with a gas at low pressure, usually mostly neon. So there.

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I will plug a guitar into it

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I wanted to buy one....but i just made mine. Designed the circuit board and all in eagle. Took a while, took 2 revisions, but worth it. Turns on when you enter the room to save the life of the tubes. Also Niche is not nich, its neesh.

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my young ass wasn't even a thought back then

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Theo: Back in the 70's my family had a next door neighbor who had a Nixie tube calculator and it was off the charts cool.

These are so cool!!

Why would anyone manufacturing a nixie tube use an upside down two to make a five. This is hideous.

Just a minor correction: There are many digital display technologies, and Nixie tubes are digital displays as well.

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Your link dont link the actual product.

So they don't make nixie tubes anymore but they still make nixie tube clocks? I did just go to Amazon. You can still buy some nixie clocks, but they're kind of expensive. With the tubes not protected by any enclosure, you got to be careful with your clock.

We had NIXIE Tubes in the old AN/SQS-26CX SONAR on the Destroyer Escorts on the US Navy back in the 70s.

Is that the one that's like a kit you make yourself?

In Amazon is not the same clock how in your video

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Incredible!! You are an artist with incredible attention to detail.

Good day. I ordered a lamp clock in Past Indicator. I really like the watch. Stylish, bright, unusual. The seller answered all the questions. Fast shipping. Great store, good service.

this must have been made by some mad scientist...

nice

Wow

Your voice is fucking annoying

"fell out of fasion in 1970's" not in soviet russia, glory of communism WE all get the best clocks

cool, very cool

Why don't the Chinese just mass manufacture them? They make a shit ton of stuff.

This is so cool. I love the theme of these.

What is the exact model he has?

You keep referring to the numeric elements as "filaments" and that is absolutely wrong. They are NOT filaments in any way, shape or form. You stated that when the electricity is applied, it heats up the "filament" and causes it to glow. That is absolutely wrong; NO heating takes place. You also said that the electricity causes the "filament" and the gas around it to glow. That is one HALF wrong; only the gas around the cathode glows, the cathode itself does not heat up and glow. And "cathode" is the proper name for the numeric element, not "filament". The neon gas around the numerals glows when bombarded by electrons just like in a common neon lamp, such as a pilot lamp. If you are going to post statements about a technology, the least you can do is to learn and understand the technology about which you are talking. All information readily available on the internet with a simple search.

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I like the PCB design

How long do nixie tubes last?

I use vacuum tubes to master music... it has a certain sound that cannot be replicated by electronic hardware

I wish I had one of these

“For people who think they’re cool”

Weird thing to say

They look good but burn out quick. Not ideal for being On 24/7

How is it powered and how do your connect to power ?

Vacuum tubes are electronic components. Before solid state circuitry they were in everything.

Reminds me of like Fallout or Bioshock style

You said there would be a link to ebay below, but there is no link.

looks very beautiful

Good camera ! Nice macroshoot ! Thanx for rly good description

@ThioJoe - could you please provide the name of this product? The amazon link does not work

I love the look of these things. From the more elegant shape of the numbers themselves to the glow fade from digit to digit to even the basic "blown glass" shape of the tube itself. They have rather complicated circuitry and use a lot of energy, but I do like them aesthetically.