Congratulations! That's quite an accomplishment.
I hope you can get the charging thing to work. I once considered potting
my Nixie watches, but thought better of it for that reason.
On 5/27/15 10:26 PM, gregebert wrote:
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After 2 years of work, I finally finished my first (and only) "nixie"
watch....... OK, so it's panaplex watch....whatever.
I still dont know how long the battery life is. When I did accelerated
battery-life testing on my demo board a few months ago, it extrapolated to
about 2.5 months. So far, it's gone a bit longer than that on a full-charge
and there's still a nice charge on it.
The sad story about this watch is that *after* I sealed the case (yep,
permanently...), then the charging terminal for the battery developed a
broken connection. Murphy's Law....So I must either destroy the handmade
plexiglass case, which took many hours to build, or drill some tiny holes
into it so I can pin-probe the battery terminals to charge it.
It's a ridiculous thing to wear because of the size and weight; I'll see
what the other engineers at work say about it tomorrow. They think I'm a
tad kooky to design a watch with a 40+ year-old display when my day-job is
designing 10nm ICs.
Heh-heh....notice I didn't show how tall the watch is in the photo....it
aint no iWatch. Probably 1 inch tall.
I just finished it in a nick of time, too. My wife and I saw "Tomorrowland"
last weekend and she was awed by Goerge Clooney's IN-18 nixie clock and
gave me an assignment to build one for her. Definitely the best task on my
honey-do list......will it really be 12 tubes, or only 6. Still pondering
that.
--
David Forbes, Tucson AZ
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