Love for small tubes

[Paul Andrews]

This is a little video of a CD80-P cycling through all its digits (plus the decimal point is lit up). I know that most people are obsessed with the larger tubes, but I love the small tubes. The digits on this are particularly sharp (no pun intended - it was salvaged from a Sharp calculator). I also have a thing about utilizing the decimal points in those tubes that support them. When I eventually get around to building a clock for these tubes, it will definitely include support for both the thousands separator and the decimal point:

[Instrument Resources of America]

No pun taken!!!  Without the small ones' we couldn't have the 'Nixie watches'.  Ira.

On 4/22/2017 8:54 AM, Paul Andrews wrote:

This is a little video of a CD80-P cycling through all its digits (plus the decimal point is lit up). I know that most people are obsessed with the larger tubes, but I love the small tubes. The digits on this are particularly sharp (no pun intended - it was salvaged from a Sharp calculator). I also have a thing about utilizing the decimal points in those tubes that support them. When I eventually get around to building a clock for these tubes, it will definitely include support for both the thousands separator and the decimal point:

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[SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F.]

Yes small tubes are very beautiful ! Got my self a B4998 a few days ago (smallest nixie).

And another thing that small tubes show, is how much precision and fine work was possible then. I guess small tubes are way harder to make than medium or big sized ones!

[Instrument Resources of America]

Almost like making watch parts.

On 4/22/2017 1:57 PM, SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F. wrote:

Yes small tubes are very beautiful ! Got my self a B4998 a few days ago (smallest nixie).

And another thing that small tubes show, is how much precision and fine work was possible then. I guess small tubes are way harder to make than medium or big sized ones!

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[Ian Vine]

Got to agree. I prefer the minute over the gigantic tubes any day. 

IanV

On 22 Apr 2017, at 16:54, Paul Andrews <pa...@nixies.us> wrote:

This is a little video of a CD80-P cycling through all its digits (plus the decimal point is lit up). I know that most people are obsessed with the larger tubes, but I love the small tubes. The digits on this are particularly sharp (no pun intended - it was salvaged from a Sharp calculator). I also have a thing about utilizing the decimal points in those tubes that support them. When I eventually get around to building a clock for these tubes, it will definitely include support for both the thousands separator and the decimal point:

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