These tubes have 16segment display plus 2 decimal points left. Nixie clock tube clock database buy nixie clocks, build. It is nice to add a little of nostalgia to the clock by using an all tube oscilloscope. The board is designed to work with various 1 to 3 inch diameter electrostatic crts and works well with the dutchtronix scope clock kit. A mini oscilloscope clock made with a 6lo1i crt cathode ray tube. If you do not own a pico product you can download the software for the product you are interested in and run in demo mode. We opted to use iv22 vfd tubes for the digits together with dm160cv6094 tubes for the colon separators. Integrated circuits ics clocktiming clock buffers, drivers are in stock at digikey. Oscilloscope crt driver build your own simple old school cathode. Unfollow oscilloscope clock to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. The b7971 nixie clock is available as a kit or as an assembly with the enclosure complete but without the tubes. Build your own simple old school cathode ray tube oscilloscope, lissajous display, or a retro tube scope clock with this simple crt driver board. The rigol technologies clearance center is the place to find great deals on demo, used and refurbished products. Lecroy wave series oscilloscope,analyzer ethernet, ieee.
The sg165 has dual meters to see stereo separation. Oscilloscope crt driver cool diy projects, electronic kits. The oscilloscope clock uses a cathode ray tube to display the time. If you are on low budget and cannot afford an oscilloscope, then these pc oscilloscope software will come in handy. This is a store featuring my homemade electronic novelty clocks, made using obsolete electronic tubes, and my kits designed for diy for these clocks. The second photo is the same set up with my green phosphor 1ep1. The lowest layer top in the table is the fast crt driver in crt. This is now in the new design using a raster type display with century font. The products carry warranties and the backing of rigols tech support team, so you dont have to worry about your purchase. This shows two 40460 ccd clock driver channels with one rising edge and one falling edge. You can inject a tone, say at 1khz, and use a spectrum analyzer program, feeding the speaker audio into a computers sound card, to see harmonics. Im here to share my result of creating my own dream clock with you. Oscilloscope tube clock 8sj31j driver board oscilloscope.
Hantek 1008c pc usb 8ch automotive diagnostic digital. The o clock can convert your xy analog oscilloscope into an analog clock or terminal. I found it works great on windows 10 as long as you register on their website and download the latest drivers v1. The prototype of vfd clock is build of 6 extra rare soviet vacuumfluorescent tubes iv17iv4. The 6digit vfd clock design was inspired by the very popular 6digit nixie clock. Impedance in any defl ection plate circuit at 50hz, no more than 2m. Here is a list of best free oscilloscope software for windows. Buy the catahoula technologies oscilloscope crt driver pcb. Youre not cool unless you have a few nixie tubes sitting around, and youre not awesome unless youve built your own nixie tube clock. Dutchtronix avr oscilloscope clock on tektronix tds3034b. Tube scope and solidstate clock later on i decided to make a dedicated scope clock and had a design for a simple three tube oscilloscope using a 6bc7 and a pair of 6au6 tubes. The numerals are formed from circles, arcs and lines. But i cant quite bring myself to put it in the nixie tube clock category, because im not sure its really a clock. Picoscope oscilloscope software and picolog data logging.
The cathode ray tube site electronic glassware history and physics instruments. A computer controllable, colorfully illuminated 6digi. In the background are the high voltage driver boards and in front of those is my 1ep11 blue phosphor crt. Download software and manuals for oscilloscopes and data loggers. Lecroy wave series oscilloscope,analyzer certified labview plug and play projectstyle instrument driver.
The new design raster style kit is a professionally made pc board and the components to populate it, including the ics and the preprogrammed esp32 module written with my firmware and the toroid transformer. Most tube radios were mono, but stereo tube radios is something i want to work on down the road, but mono fm is all i can handle for now. Sparkfun o clock, avr oscilloscope clock kit and labguys various crts 20141216 in the first photo we see the sparkfun avr scope clock kit, on the left. Details about 6lo1i rare crt vintage oscilloscope cathode ray tube clock nos. Dg 72 7cm crt philips green phosphor screen used in one of the first philips oscilloscopes. However, several of the internal systems are similar. Electrostatic cathode ray tube project 1 labguys world. Open source hardware certifications for march 2020. So, apparently, according to the merriam webster definition, it is a clock, because you.
Get the best deals on other vintage electronics when you shop the largest online selection at. It wasnt found on ebay, and no one submitted it, so those categories dont fit, either. Mini oscilloscope clock dg76 cathode ray tube 3 oscilloscope clocks. In addition, it can be used alone as a function generator. Other crt cathode ray tube types can be used, you can even rip one from an old and maybe dead oscilloscope, then you also get the powersupply and stuff, if you are lucky the deflection amplifiers also work. The tubes used in this ultrasimple oscilloscope are. Learning how to use an oscilloscope means being introduced to an entire lexicon of terms. Features the scope clock displays the time on a 3 diameter oscilloscope tube crt. Howard constantine is raising funds for the oscilloscope clock v gps module 1pps autoset timedate on kickstarter.
Very useful for canadian companies, schools, and experimenters that need access to sophisticated, low cost electronics. Have you tried your board with the new sparkfun avr oscilloscope clock. From this page you can download the latest version picoscope oscilloscope software, picolog data logging software, software development kits sdk, brochures and manuals. As ive recently found, its not all that easy to find information on electrostatic deflection crts. On this page well introduce some of the important oscope buzzwords you should be familiar with before turning one on. In that case you get all the important parts you need, the transformer, high voltage circuit, the deflection circuits and last but not least the crt tube itself. It works in combination with your pc or maxisys tablet, which turns into a powerful diagnostic tool, providing you an insight to the inner workings of a vehicles electronic circuits. Some crt types that i have used with this board are. What others are saying about the avr oscilloscope clock. Adding a scope clock board kit is in the plans as well.
Summary and test using lissajou figures of a diy build of an oscilloscope using solid state circuits from old hobby book dated 1979. If you want to use this kit to make a dedicated oscilloscope clock, it might be an idea to find a cheap second hand oscilloscope on ebay. Spheres canadian test equipment site contains an extensive inventory of all kinds of new and used electronic test equipment, service parts, bargains, electronic parts and other items. Oscilloscope crt driver build your own simple old school cathode ray tube oscilloscope, lissajous display, or a retro tube scope clock with this simple crt driver board.
These software work as cro software on your pc to analyze signals and sound. Oscilloscope tube clock 8sj31j driver board oscilloscope clock control board kit creative diy electronic production enjoy free shipping worldwide. Both types of tubes are still available in relatively large quantities. Etsy your place to buy and sell all things handmade. The scope clock displays the time on a small oscilloscope tube. Oscilloscopes continuously graph the voltage of a piece of equipment against a calibrated scale, creating a waveform you can analyze for rise time, time interval, amplitude, frequency, and more. Tiny tv mark 2 and erics 3 boards driving a 3jp7 radar display tube. An oscilloscope, previously called an oscillograph, and informally known as a scope or oscope, cro for cathoderay oscilloscope, or dso for the more modern digital storage oscilloscope, is a type of electronic test instrument that graphically displays varying signal voltages, usually as a twodimensional plot of one or more signals as a function of time. The display changes with voltage from around 900v to 0v and the intensity g voltage seems to change the astigmatism, rather then the. A small dg32 with 3cm face green phosphor screen early oscilloscope tube. Build your own simple old school cathode ray tube oscilloscope, lissajous. The oscilloscope clock by howard constantine kickstarter. How does an oscilloscope work oscilloscope working.
Never rear, because now theres an open hardware eletrostatic crt driver for your next display. The numbers are formed from circles, lines and arcs, just like the numbers on a nixie clock. Analog oscilloscopes work somewhat differently than digital oscilloscopes. First photo shows how it can work with crt driver kit, that you can buy separately on ebay from. Cheap integrated circuits, buy directly from china suppliers. Oscilloscope clock or scope clock made with 6lo1i cathode ray tube, vintage analog technology saved from obsolescence with new digital tech. The maxiscope mp408 is a pc based 4channel automotive oscilloscope. Make your xy capable analog oscilloscope more useful your oscilloscope can do a lot more using the. It is very similar to the avr oscilloscope clock kit, but this board is all smd and comes fully assembled. I designed another simple transformerless tube oscilloscope years later for use in the scope clock, so be sure to check that out. Maintain your electronic equipment with generalpurpose or specialpurpose oscilloscopes. As the iv22 vfd tubes have the same dimensions as the in12 nixie tubes used in the original clock, we decided to use the same setup. Introducing openvfd the colorful vfd tube clock with light effects that make the clock dance, glow or turn into a rainbow. The oscilloscope clock v, gps module driven with new firmware and several improvements to pc board design.
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