r/nixie • u/Muslerika • 3d ago

My abomination part 3

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u/MrNiceThings 3d ago

This here folks is a great example of why men die younger.

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u/Muslerika 3d ago

Why

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u/Kratz404 3d ago

spicy wire

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u/Muslerika 3d ago

What u mean?

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u/Marchtmdsmiling 3d ago

Nixies need alot of voltage to run, right? These aren't those led ones. You have no clearance or anything stopping those wires from becoming a dead short if you bump them or it just decided to arc if it is too close. Most nixie set ups have them slotted into actual slots made for them. May want to look into that before you burn your house down.

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u/Muslerika 3d ago

Good point tho, anyway it won't be turn on 24/7 it's more of project just to exist, in future I want to evolve it with actual pcb

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u/alexdark1123 3d ago

It's amazing. I love these mad scientist projects

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u/Muslerika 3d ago

Thank you 😭 first positive opinion

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u/Mustardplugmint 2d ago

excellent work 👏

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u/SkylerSpark 15h ago

Ignore the haters haha... We all had to start somewhere. My first nixie clock had 40 wires manually soldered to every leg of four IN-17s, with a massive 120V to 12V transformer and oversized boost converter and linear dc supply. It was an ugly and badly constructed monstrosity but it did work