{"id":217,"date":"2011-06-13T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T02:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2015-10-08T22:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T02:40:43","slug":"the-mod-6_7971-nixie-tube-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"The MOD-6_7971 Nixie tube clock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t mentioned it before, but I&#8217;m a bit of a clock geek. The technical term for that is &#8220;horophile&#8221;. I have quite a few oddball timepieces around the house, including the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qlocktwo.com\/info.php?lang=en\">QLOCKTWO<\/a> delivered to the US, a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilmadscientist.com\/article.php\/bulbdialkit\">Bulbdial<\/a> clocks, and many <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nixie_tube\">Nixie tube<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vacuum_fluorescent_display\">VFD<\/a> clocks.<\/p>\n<p>However, last week I received the largest clock kit ever &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/badnixie.com\/The_%22MOD-SIX_7971%22_Nixie.html\">MOD-6_7971<\/a> by by Carl Ott and Michael Barile. The completed clock is over 20&#8243; wide and 6&#8243; high, with digits 2&frac12;&#8221; tall.<\/p>\n<p>I have a separate page <a href=\"\/mod-6-nixie\/\">here<\/a> describing the clock, but I&#8217;m adding a link here so people can find it, and also to facilitate comments (while the actual clock page doesn&#8217;t support comments, you can comment here).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a teaser picture &#8211; click the picture for more info:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/mod-6-nixie\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"6F5S8153-blog.jpg\" alt=\"MOD-6 Nixie clock\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t mentioned it before, but I&#8217;m a bit of a clock geek. The technical term for that is &#8220;horophile&#8221;. I have quite a few oddball timepieces around the house, including the first QLOCKTWO delivered to the US, a pair of Bulbdial clocks, and many Nixie tube and VFD clocks. However, last week I received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glaver.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}