Pixie
with the color of the burining fire,
This Time Keeper is built using 6 original pieces of Z570M type russian nixie tubes. The base is enterly made of wood, handcrafted, painted and finished with fine laquer. If you're planning to make a darkened bar or office fizz with life, you can't go far wrong with nixie displays..
It's name comes from a worldplay, the basis being "Nixie"
What is a Nixie tube?
According to Wikipedia: "A Nixie tube or cold cathode display, is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information using glow discharge. 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 and often a little mercury or argon, in a Penning mixture. Although it resembles a vacuum tube in appearance, its operation does not depend on thermionic emission of electrons from a heated cathode. It is therefore called a cold-cathode tube (a form of gas-filled tube), and is a variant of the neon lamp. Such tubes rarely exceed 40 °C (104 °F) even under the most severe of operating conditions in a room at ambient temperature.
Main features
- Original nixie tube display with round, glowing numbers
- Modern electronics combined with vintage tubes
- Can be programmed to switch off during night hours
- Wifi enabled
- Automatically syncronizes time from NTP servers
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Technical Specification:
| Description | |
|---|---|
| Physical Dimensions | 20cm x 20cm x 6cm |
| Supply voltage | 12V, 2A |
| Automatic brightness adjustment | Yes |
| Supported Wifi networks: | 2.4 Ghz, WPA, WPA2 encryption |
| Base: | handcrafted, wooden base |
| Nixie tube type: | Z570M |
| Tube operating voltage: | 150-170V DC! |
| Permanent internet connection required: | Yes |