Description
Four IN-12 Nixie tubes in solid walnut, behind a recessed smoked panel.
The tubes
The IN-12 is the smaller Soviet Nixie tube, and its digits sit flat rather than curved, so you read them face-on. All four are new old stock, never used. They lift out and swap in by hand — no soldering — and a spare ships in the box.
The case
Solid walnut, with the tubes set behind a recessed smoked panel that deepens the orange and keeps the daylight off the glass. About 350 g, 17 × 7 × 7 cm.
Living with it
A motion sensor rests the tubes when the room is empty, which is what turns a few years of tube life into many. Temperature and humidity appear between the time, the backlight runs the full colour range or switches off entirely, and there is an alarm if you would rather wake to orange glow than to a phone screen. A backup battery keeps the time through a power cut.
Built by hand in Kyiv and covered for twelve months: if a tube fails inside that year, the replacement is free.
Description
Four IN-12 Nixie tubes in solid walnut, behind a recessed smoked panel.
The tubes
The IN-12 is the smaller Soviet Nixie tube, and its digits sit flat rather than curved, so you read them face-on. All four are new old stock, never used. They lift out and swap in by hand — no soldering — and a spare ships in the box.
The case
Solid walnut, with the tubes set behind a recessed smoked panel that deepens the orange and keeps the daylight off the glass. About 350 g, 17 × 7 × 7 cm.
Living with it
A motion sensor rests the tubes when the room is empty, which is what turns a few years of tube life into many. Temperature and humidity appear between the time, the backlight runs the full colour range or switches off entirely, and there is an alarm if you would rather wake to orange glow than to a phone screen. A backup battery keeps the time through a power cut.
Built by hand in Kyiv and covered for twelve months: if a tube fails inside that year, the replacement is free.