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Nostalgia like it used to be - and about time, too
The BigTime MkII
(Because it s Big, and it tells the Time)
Top Quality, Full-Featured,
Six Digit IN18 Nixie Clock Kit
All the features that you d expect from a modern clock, but with all the beauty of original retro Large Russian IN18 Nixie display tubes
Six months in the making, and based on an earlier and highly successful BigTime MkI design, The BigTime is the latest incarnation of a PIC Microprocessor-based, six-digit nixie clock. It is the marriage of electronics from two disparate eras: Cold War display technology and twenty-first century integrated electronics.
The Best Nixie Clock You Can Buy
Whoa! That s quite a claim, there. But I ve done my research, now you do yours. Yes, there are other nixie clocks out there. But you simply will not find a more complete, feature-rich, professionally finished, large nixie clock. If all you want is to know the time, look at your wrist. If you want a fantastic piece of quality retro art, that also tells you the time (and lots of other stuff, too), then you are in the right place.
Being processor (rather than discrete logic) based, The BigTime is able to offer many more functions, without loosing the charm of its raison d’etre – the glorious IN18 nixie display tubes. Uniquely, The BigTime s many functions are controlled via an infrared remote control (supplied, of course), making case design and location of the finished clock simpler.
Although the nixie tubes themselves ...