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- Page 1 Assembly Instructions and User Guide Nixie Clock Type ‘Nixie Maestro’ Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 1 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
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Page 2: Revision History
REVISION HISTORY Issue Date Reason for Issue Number 06 December 2012 New document Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 2 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk... - Page 3 INTRODUCTION Nixie Maestro - Features Nixie clock type ‘Nixie Maestro’ has the following features: - Hours, Minutes and Seconds display - 12 or 24 hour modes - Uses a Quartz Crystal Oscillator as the timebase - Programmable leading zero blanking - Date display in either DD.MM.YY or MM.DD.YY or YY.MM.DD format...
- Page 4 This is not a finished product, and the person assembling the kit is responsible for ensuring that the finished product complies with any applicable local regulations governing electrical equipment, eg. UL, CE, VDE. Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 4 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
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Page 5: Tools And Equipment Required
Europe, has a much higher melting point and can be very hard to work with. Desoldering wick (braid) can be useful if you accidentally create solder bridges between adjacent solder joints. Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 5 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk... -
Page 6: List Of Components
Please note the fuse will look like the picture below. It can easily be confused for a capacitor. It is a self-resetting fuse. Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 6 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk... - Page 7 PCB. Use a small length of trimmed lead from another component to extend one lead so that it can be place flat. Also note the arrows on the PCB match the arrows on the part. Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 7 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
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Page 8: Power Supply
- 12V DC - 5.5mm plug, with 2.1mm inner, centre positive. A suitable power supply for USA, Canada, Japan and Australia is available in our web store: Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 8 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk... -
Page 9: How To Operate The Clock
It will show for several seconds and then move to parameter 1. In all correspondence on support issues, please quote the board type, revision date and software version. Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 9 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk... - Page 10 Time Calibration Factor 0 - 99 (each unit adjusts by 0.2s per day) Time Calibration Polarity 0 - Make clock slower 1 - Make clock faster Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 10 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
- Page 11 8. Set this parameter to ‘1’ to restore original default settings. Internal operations will then load all the original settings and restore the value to ‘0’ Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 11 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
- Page 12 Note, that GPS time data does not contain DST information, so the DST status will need to be set manually in GPS sync mode as well as manual time-set mode. Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 12 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
- Page 13 5 full days (120 hours). Program this value into parameter Set parameter 21 to 0 to slow down the clock and to 1 to speed up the clock. Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 13 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
- Page 14 • Once you are happy with the colour for that hour, press ‘DST’ to move to the next hour. • Have fun playing with your favourite colours and intensities! Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 14 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
- Page 15 • In the example below, between 19 and 20 hours, the LEDs will be blue with a hint of green ( 0 red, 2 green and 8 blue). Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 15 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
- Page 16 Blue value has no effect. Note: The colours do not cycle live during Auto Colour Cycling setup. The cycling starts only during normal time and date display. Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 16 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
- Page 17 • Set parameter (16) to identify whether the offset is minus (0) or positive (1) of UTC. The clock has been designed for, and tested with our Micro GPS Receiver (available separately from PV Electronics) Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 17 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
- Page 18 2 hours and 24 hours ago; and off if the last synchronisation is older than 24 hours. Nixie Clock Kit ' Maestro’ - 18 - ISSUE 1 (06 December 2012) www.pvelectronics.co.uk...
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