Price: 159 €

By Jürgen Grau

Jürgen just sent in a new clock that he will soon be selling as a kit on his website. It is an IV-12 based vacuum fluorescent tube clock with a clean looking sandwich style acrylic enclosure. The kit will also include a power supply, lead forming tool and gloves. The completed enclosure should be 196mm X 65mm X 23mm.

Photos

IV-12 VFD Clock

Video:

Features:

Fading digits with adjustable speed
Leading zero suppression
Scrolling date with adjustable speed and frequency
Two levels of brightness
Software adjustable correction of the crystal's deviation
Alarm with adjustable tone and snooze time
Soft flashing column LEDs with simulated VFD colors (RGB type LEDs)
Built in RGB controller for many lighting styles and millions of colors

P.S. Be sure to check out his IN-12 Nixie clock too.

Links

UPDATES 8/1/2010:

Jürgen sent in some great photos and a video of the clock in action.

UPDATES: 8/8/201:

Jürgen sent in nearly-finished product shots. The only difference between the photos and the final product will be the PCB color. The finished design will be blue with white printing.

Comments

#1 Guest 2010-07-31 02:39

This is a neat looking clock. I like the acrylic tube plate. I would like to see nicer fasteners used...maybe SS Allen head sockets? Quality fasteners make a BIG difference I like this tube...really pretty and still cheap! Probably not for long though if it's use becomes popular.

+1 #2 Guest 2010-08-01 08:33

Hello Michael,
the fastening in the final version of the kit is made with flat allen head screws, of course. As I have taken these pictures from the very first prototype I had only such screws with a lenght of 12 mm on stock and when you have a total thickness of 22.5 mm of the enclosure you'll get problems when try to screw with 2 x 12 mm ;-)