{"product_id":"in-14-nixie-tube-clock-ash-wood","title":"IN-14 Nixie Tube Clock — Ash Wood","description":"\u003cp\u003eFour Soviet Nixie tubes in pale ash — the lightest case in the range, and the one that disappears into a bright room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe tubes\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour genuine IN-14 Nixie tubes, made in Soviet factories more than thirty-five years ago and never used since. Each digit is a shaped wire cathode lit end to end — an orange nobody has managed to fake with an LED. They sit in sockets rather than solder, so when one eventually goes you pull it out and push the next one in, in about a minute, with no tools. One spare ships in the box, so the first replacement costs you nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe case\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandmade ash, hand-oiled. Ash is pale and open-grained, so the case reads as furniture rather than as equipment, and the orange of the tubes has nothing dark to fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eLiving with it\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuilt by hand in Kyiv and covered for twelve months: if a tube fails inside that year, the replacement is free.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nixie Star","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40758384984153,"sku":"IN-14 VINTAGE ASH","price":249.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0272\/2145\/9033\/files\/DSC_0786_Fit50.jpg?v=1702753260","url":"https:\/\/nixiestar.com\/products\/in-14-nixie-tube-clock-ash-wood","provider":"NIXIE STAR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}