Hello, Time-Nutters-- Jim Lux wrote:
To those tinkering at home, though, this cycling through is great.. If you're willing to fix it yourself, and maybe have a hangar queen or princess for parts, or you don't need ALL the functions to work (never needed that knob anyway..), then you too get really nice gear to work with. (and, besides there's something really satisfying about that orange glow of the Nixies... It impresses people who see your garage, because its redolent of Atomic Age science fiction movies of the 60s and 70s.) -------------------- For what it is worth, I keep a couple of vintage HP counters, sweepers and timers operational in my shop simply because they are so, well... kuel. Besides, the flickering of the nixie tubes impresses the natives. You gotta admit, an old 10 digit HP frequency counter cycling away on its internal reference just oozes panache.... Mike Baker --------------------------- _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.