Regarding your concern about the wooden housing: I had an old nixie design that I did in college in the 1970 timeframe. It used voltage doubler circuitry for the nixies and housed a filament transformer for the main power supply, which were all mounted inside the housing. My old design with point to point wiring and discrete devices is dark ages compared to current designs. That clock ran perfectly for over thirty years with a wooden and plexiglass case and was no problem - until 2005 when the voltage doubler shorted and caught fire. It had far more power available inside the housing when things went wrong.
I think that the designs from present day with the external power supply (and limited energy) are quite safe to run with wooden enclosures. The power supplies are quite safe and if there was a problem with something, it would most likely not be with the clock itself. On Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 12:10:21 AM UTC-6, Michel wrote: > > I would feel a bit anxious to leave a wooden clock switched on for say 24 > hrs/day, especially if it is not my own design. Just worried it would catch > fire at a moment I am asleep or not there. Is that just me or do other > people have that same worry? > > I quite like the design though, not an immediate "wow" factor as some > other clocks, but I wouldn't mind having a clock like this one. > > Michel > > > on Jan 25, 2014, *Quixotic Nixotic* <nixc...@jsdesign.co.uk <javascript:>> > wrote: > > My feelings are best left unspoken, > > https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1692415722/steampunk-nixie-clock > > John S > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send an email to neoni...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/8C352420-EAA8-469D-AC4F-8867BE10DC1B%40jsdesign.co.uk. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/7badf336-2fde-4aa9-8f9a-327474e63956%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
