[neonixie-l] David Forbes and cathodecorner.com

2010-10-30 Thread Mort
I just noticed that cathodecorner.com is down. Does anyone know if David Forbes is still available? Earlier this week, I sent him an email concerning my Nixie watch, purchased last February, has malfunctioned. I never got a reply although the email did not bounce. I hope the website problem is

[neonixie-l] Re: David Forbes and cathodecorner.com

2010-10-30 Thread orange_glow_fan
It's up now...not sure what the problem was. Kerry On Oct 30, 8:20 am, Mort ml.deni...@comcast.net wrote: I just noticed that cathodecorner.com is down. Does anyone know if David Forbes is still available? Earlier this week, I sent him an email concerning my Nixie watch, purchased last

[neonixie-l] Re: NeoNixie Controller question

2010-10-30 Thread MichaelB
Bottom line, the adjustment via the controller had no effect on this accuracy issue. I ended up changing out the TCXO with a new one and..problem solved. No noticeable drift on more than one week. I guess I must have fried the first one during the building of the clock. On Sep 24, 11:14 am,

[neonixie-l] Re: New nixie-clock by Telefunken

2010-10-30 Thread MichaelB
Wow! I like it!! I can picture this thing sitting on a stack of Marshalls! On Oct 26, 11:27 am, astroschmidt roger.leif...@freenet.de wrote: The venerable Telefunken company is still in existence and has a new nixieclock in their program:

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: NeoNixie Controller question

2010-10-30 Thread Adam Jacobs
I think that you should have found (unless your clock goes through radical changes in temperature) that there was a time correction that you could apply to make your clock behave close enough.. Obviously a TCXO is the easiest answer, provided you have $10 to spend on a DS32khz (or know that

[neonixie-l] Re: NeoNixie Controller question

2010-10-30 Thread MichaelB
The clock did not seem to respond in any way, even to significant changes in the SW adjustment which led me to believe something was hosed! Yep. I'm with you on the Maxim sample thing! On Oct 30, 12:06 pm, Adam Jacobs a...@jacobs.us wrote: I think that you should have found (unless your clock

[neonixie-l] Re: Longines made a Nixie clock - $

2010-10-30 Thread Jens Boos
On 28 Okt., 01:34, A.J. Franzman a.j.franz...@verizon.net wrote: We've had a photo of one of those (scanned from a magazine) in the Yahoo archives for years, but this is the first I've heard of a real life encounter. My guess is that they're extremely rare, probably only being sold to wealthy

[neonixie-l] OT: Dave Jones goes to Apex Electronics

2010-10-30 Thread threeneurons
Dave Jones, of the EEV Blog, takes a trip to southern California, and tours Apex Electronics: http://www.eevblog.com/2010/10/30/eevblog-124-a-tour-of-apex-electronics/ To those outside the Los Angeles area, this is one of the few electronics surplus places still in existence, in this area. Its

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: NeoNixie Controller question

2010-10-30 Thread Michail1
$10? That is by far worth it considering the time saving in labor alone. :) Glad you got your clock running. Now you have time for the next project. Michail In a message dated 10/30/2010 12:37:33 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, mbari...@dslextreme.com writes: provided you have