Introduction: Steampunked Nixie-tube-switch
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About: I love to invent and create new things in a "steampunk styled way" working with brass, copper, vulcanized-fibre, brass gears and (ply)- wood. On one side I am fascinated in neon lights and small ele…
Hi everybody
I promised you to show in this instructable my next astonishing steampunk aparatus. It is called: "Steampunked Nixie-tube-switch"
or in german: "Junhophor-Plasma-Kraftstärkeregler".
My first instructable is an steampunk Plasma-converter. This object needs a switch-component and an telegraphing machine to send the created plasma beams around the world. So here ist comes
The switch:
I promised you to show in this instructable my next astonishing steampunk aparatus. It is called: "Steampunked Nixie-tube-switch"
or in german: "Junhophor-Plasma-Kraftstärkeregler".
My first instructable is an steampunk Plasma-converter. This object needs a switch-component and an telegraphing machine to send the created plasma beams around the world. So here ist comes
The switch:
Step 1: Starting With the Nixie-tube
Step 2: The Electrical Circuit
On a data sheet for this nixie-tube I found this simple circuit and I decided to build exactly this circuit.
So you can switch for your own to the different numbers of the tube and watch it.
So you can switch for your own to the different numbers of the tube and watch it.
Step 3: Here Comes the Steampunk Design
I took another brass fire hose valve as you already know it from my plasma-converter project and followed this design.
Ont the top you see the 10-step switch and in front there shines the Nixie-tube. The small screws on top only shows the position of the switch. The bigger ones stop the crank.
Look at the pictures and follow the steps
Ont the top you see the 10-step switch and in front there shines the Nixie-tube. The small screws on top only shows the position of the switch. The bigger ones stop the crank.
Look at the pictures and follow the steps
Step 4: Inside the Valve and Bottom
As you know the nixie tube, as a special form of neon gas filled plasma bulb, only works with hogh voltage but low current.
I generate this HV with an electronic from an flash of an disposal camera. In my other plasma projects I used the same modified electronic so I don´t want to repeat this step here again:-))
I generate this HV with an electronic from an flash of an disposal camera. In my other plasma projects I used the same modified electronic so I don´t want to repeat this step here again:-))