other uses for nixies

[christopher helps]

Hello...My first post,I was wondering what other uses apart from clocks that nixies would be good for in todays enviroment.All i can think of are lift indicators or cash tills.

A few years ago I made a wall mounted nixie with 568m tubes(when they were cheap! will post pic

[GastonP]

Out of the top of my head and focusing on domestic use only :

Weight scales.
Thermometers (seen before around here).
Tuner frequency indicators (need good shielding).
Home meteorological station indicators.
Digital key indicators.
Caller ID indicators

Gaston

[Tomasz Kowalczyk]

Car speedometer? Never seen a project like this, it would fit a youngtimer.

Just don't REPLACE your original speedometer, no police officer would accept a homemade device as a valid equipment on which you'd swear that it was showing under 50km/h!

[gregebert]

I keep telling myself I will make a digital multimeter project, someday.....

[Allen Dutra]

Go all the way and do an neon oscilloscope Greg. We believe in you! :)

[Nicholas Stock]

Or an all valve nixie clock! ;-)

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[Tomasz Kowalczyk]

It had been done before:

http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/Leserbriefe/Bruegmann-Digital-Roehren-Clock/Digital-Roehrenuhr.htm

W dniu piątek, 22 grudnia 2017 05:48:40 UTC+1 użytkownik Pramanicin napisał:

Or an all valve nixie clock! ;-)

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Allen Dutra <allen...@gmail.com> wrote:

Go all the way and do an neon oscilloscope Greg. We believe in you! :)

On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 1:02:26 PM UTC-8, gregebert wrote:

I keep telling myself I will make a digital multimeter project, someday.....

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[chuck richards]

Possible uses for nixies:

-Caller ID readout for landline telephone.

-Indoor/Outdoor thermometer.

-Programmable dialer for testing telephone switching equipment.

-Soldering station temperature readout.

-Microwave oven clock/countdown timer.

-Car speedometer (been done before I think)
[one guy tried nixies for a motorcycle tach and
speedometer, and he found out that the vibration
was a bit too much for them].

-Machine tool CNC readout.


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[Nicholas Stock]

That is totally bonkers! I wonder how much heat that produces.....:-)

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[christopher helps]

I like the idea of weighing scales,would be good in a flashy kitchen..are there nixes that show kg/Ib sign?

Alot of uses seem to work for workshop ideas

[Tomasz Kowalczyk]

GR-1620

http://lampes-et-tubes.info/cd/cd032.php?l=f

Good luck hunting for this + at least 3 GR-414 though :)

There are also ZM1185E and NL-924.

And now, to be more realistic: use two tubes to combine letters, this way you might also make a "kg"/"g" scale. For example, use Dolam LL-55x tubes.

[threeneurons]

On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 3:09:33 PM UTC-8, Allen Dutra wrote:

Go all the way and do an neon oscilloscope Greg. We believe in you! :)

One of the early "Grid" computer models, had a dot matrix neon display. So if you find one of those, you can make a digital o-scope ! 

[threeneurons]

Me too. Mine would also use a dual-slope ADC, like many early digital voltmeters.

A plus for, non-clock projects, is that you can use the shorter live (non-mercury) nixies for such products, if they are to be On, only for relatively short periods.

On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 1:02:26 PM UTC-8, gregebert wrote: