One-Tube Nixie Clock

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One-Tube Nixie Clock


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Mats Engstrom’s gorgeous no-PCB nixie clock reads off one digit at a time.

It’s a clock made of a single IN-1 Nixie tube controlled by a ATMega8. The Mega8 directly controls 10 pcs of MPSA42 high voltage transistors for lighting up the filaments in in Nixie. It also generates the high voltage required for the tubes by a pwm output connected to a IRF520 N-FET and the usual inductor and fast recovery diode.

[via DangPro]

6 thoughts on “One-Tube Nixie Clock

  1. Kris says:

    Gorgeous!

  2. Brett Coulthard says:

    Got’s to make something like this.

  3. NIXIE CLOCK | Baldo's page …in pictures says:

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