Most expensive Nixie Clock Ever?

[Nicholas Stock]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/226532435181

Not my auction (obviously)....

Nick

[Jeff Walton]

Nice way to show off a new project!  Outrageous publicity. 

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[Peter Hall]

Very interesting...I have a couple off his clocks,alas nothing at this price😀. Needs a clear bottom with mirror,too show the work done.

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[jf03...@gmail.com]

The audiophools might want to harvest the dual triodes.

[Dekatron42]

I wnder if it's a copy of this one: https://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Leserbriefe/Bruegmann-Digital-Roehren-Clock/Digital-Roehrenuhr.htm

/Martin

[Roger Brinkman]

Yes I wondered about that too, the schematics, design and process were well documented by Friedhelm Bruegmann. A commendable effort of design and wonderfully constructed.

There’s no doubt that Friedhelm’s clock is worth considerable money. I would love one if I had a spare dining room sized space to accommodate it! 

Roger. 

On 8 Jan 2025, at 6:33 pm, Dekatron42 <martin....@gmail.com> wrote:

I wnder if it's a copy of this one: https://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Leserbriefe/Bruegmann-Digital-Roehren-Clock/Digital-Roehrenuhr.htm

/Martin

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The audiophools might want to harvest the dual triodes.

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[Benoit Tourret]

I hope they include the summer-time feature to power-off the clock in summer, just to avoid the owner to be overcooked !!!!

[gregebert]

SO many tubes.....reminds me of the Berkeley/Beckman universal counter

http://www.softwareandmind.com/museum/mlist.html

[Nicholas Stock]

More tubes on one of these though...

https://sgitheach.org.uk/nixie9.html

If you include trigger tubes as tubes (I do).... doesn't cost $80K either... :)

You can see a prototype (without the 1/10ths of seconds and pendulum dekatron addon) here..

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCPMzuOjdBs/

Nick

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[Audrey]

I'm selling an 80,001 euro clock, if anyone is interested

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[Mac Doktor]

On Jan 8, 2025, at 12:13 PM, gregebert <greg...@hotmail.com> wrote:

SO many tubes.....reminds me of the Berkeley/Beckman universal counter

http://www.softwareandmind.com/museum/mlist.html

I have an HP 521A. I have a line on someone who can restore it but I can't focus on that project right now.

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"If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes."—Roy Batty, Blade Runner

[Dekatron42]

Just my two cents. The build quality looks far from that price, solder flux not cleaned properly, cut wire just standing there straight up, poor wooden cornering, wood splinter on foot, screw holes with no screws covering them, different colored Nixie sockets, a few top mounted sockets whereas most bottom mounted, one tube with tape label, most Triodes are Russian types and not the Audiophile coveted ECC-series, many tubes looks like used ones and not unused ones, heavier components hanging from wires prone to moving around when transported plus the top panel needs cleaning as well as the inside needs vacuuming. Not like other clocks sold by this seller!

It just looks sloppy and untidy, more like a prototype and I like the Friedhelm Bruegmann a lot more as it looks like it came from the era. Component wise I guess it will set you back €3000-4000 and perhaps €1000 for mounting materials and of course it will take you some time to build.

There have been a few similar ones like the Friedhelm Bruegmann built over the years and some have been built to hang on the wall with either front view Nixies or the Nixies has been put in a recess at the top of the front panel. There have also been a few types with different displays like E1T with only valves.

Putting on my flame retardant suit! :)

/Martin

[J Forbes]

Reminds me also of the Berkeley/Beckman counter...and the clock I made from one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM9TW6GcCQE

[gregebert]

Converting that Berkeley counter into a clock was quite an undertaking. That video was 16 years ago; curious if it still works.

I've torn-down a few of them because they were such a nightmare of tubes and wiring. There were so many tubes that the power transformer had 2 windings for the filaments; I think one was 12 amps, and the other 15 amps. After a few minutes of operation, it felt like a small toaster oven. I wish I kept one of the counter modules, though I did snip-out all of the neon bulbs.   I recall 2 versions, one with the 0-9 numerals in a vertical line, and another where they were staggered a bit, so they would zig-zag during counting.   There was another version that had an electroluminescent panel with 7-segment displays. Sadly, the E-L displays wear-out and get too dim to read.

Now that I have access to a laser cutter, I've thought about making LED versions of the numeric displays for a clock.

[J Forbes]

I built the neon tube clock 24 years ago. It worked a few years ago, but I haven't run it lately. I guess i should, it's sitting on a shelf above my computer.