Lamina Nixie Clock Lamina Nixie Manuel utilisateur
LAMINA NIXIE CLOCK
OPERATION MANUAL
The Lamina Nixie Clock is not just a nixie clock! It is a handcrafted,
wooden framed timepiece with several programmable light eects.
Make your unique clock more unique! The easy access setup menu
gives many possibilities to set your favorite colors to dierent time of
the day, blinking, ashing or changing the light randomly!
With the optional built in Wi-Fi unit or the optional GPS unit your
clock will be the most accurate nixie clock ever.
This professionally hand made product will give you joy for every
day!
Congratulations for your new
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Lamina Nixie Clock
Pay attention!
Before remove your new clock from its box please read
the operation manual carefully and follow the instructions!
To keep your Lamina Nixie Clock in perfect shape avoid any water or
any other liquid interact with the clock.
Fingerprints, water or any other liquid can leave dark stains on the
brass surface!
Use a ne brush to remove any dust and or antistatic cloth to clean
the surfaces from ngerprint and stain.
Do not use any chemical agents for cleaning!
The wood is a living material. By the time it may darkens, changes its
color.
Any water and liquid might cause dark spots and disscolored surfaces
on the brass parts.
Avoid to operate the clock in humid or very dusty environment!
Technical information
The clock operates from standard 12V, 1A power adaptor.
Do not use any 12V power adaptor below 1A.
Output connector size standard, 5.5mm, 2.1mm pin.
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How to operate the clock
The clock has 3 buttons on its rear side to operate: SET - ALARM -
ADJUST
The principle of operation is based on how long you press and hold
the buttons.
In general...
Press briey a button while you hear 1 beep - you can step between
parameters, change values with one step at the time.
Press and hold it pressed until you hear 2 beeps, then release -
enter/exit menus, activate functions, revers value step directions.
Press and hold it pressed for 3 beeps - enter/exit advanced menu or
reset values, switch o alarm.
Press and hold it for 4 beeps and keep holding it - fast forward or
backward steps when setting values.
Clock operation / control buttons
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Power socket
SET ALARM ADJUSTGPS socket
Quick start your Lamina Nixie Clock
Indicator lights
Connect the power and plug in the clock. It shows 6-5-4-3-2-1
numbers on the nixie tubes.
Press and hold the SET button for 2 beeps to start the clock. It will
show 09:00:00 as the time, and 01.01.13 as the date. This is the initial
start time.
From this point you can set the clock manually.
Press and hold the SET button for 2 beeps to set the date and time.
The year will be highlighted rst, set it to current with the ADJUST
button.
Press one more time the SET button to go to the month. Pressing the
ADJUST button set it to current than step forward to the day and set
it, press SET again to go to the hour and minute to adjust.
The seconds could be zeroed in a same way.
The “hour’” must set by using 24 hours format. (settings only)
To EXIT, press and hold the SET button for 2 beeps.
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Wi-Fi/GPS sync enabled/disabled Alarm ON/OFF
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To the clock’s settings enter the parameter menu. To do this, press
and hold the SET button for 3 beeps and release.
When you enter in the parameters menu, rst you see the rmware
versions of the clock.
The numbers start: eg.: 00 -1 24. This value can not be modied.
Press the SET button once than you step to the 1. parameter, press
again for the 2. and so on. The clock has 34 parameters to set/modify.
Every change is saved immediately. To exit the parameter menu do
the same as to enter, press and hold the SET button for 3 beeps. You
can exit the parameter settings anytime.
Set the basics
2 4
1
1
1 2
5 0
2 0 2 5 5
Parameter # RGB variation Value
0 2 2
0 0 4
Firmware version
Date format
LED brightness
Color setting
Examples:
12 hours AM/PM or 24 hours mode
The clock can show the time in 24 hours format (Europe/military) or
12 hours AM/PM format.
Press and hold the SET button for 3 beeps to enter the parameter
menu. By pressing the SET button briey, step to the parameter #1.
With the ADJUST button you can change the value of this parameter.
If it is “0” (zero) the clock shows the 12 hours time format, if the value
of the parameter #1 is “1”, the clock shows the time in 24 hours format.
If it is set and you don’t want to do any other changes, press and hold
the SET button for 3 beeps to exit the parameter menu.
Change the date format
There are three time date formats what you can use
to display the date:
0: MM:DD:YY / 1: DD:MM:YY / 2: YY:MM:DD
If you want to change it do the following:
Press and hold the SET button for 3 beeps to enter the parameter
menu. By pressing the SET button briey, step to the parameter #2.
With the ADJUST button you can change the value of this parameter.
If it is“0”(zero) the time format is: MM:DD:YY, if the value of the param-
eter #2 is “1”, the clock shows the DD:MM:YY date format. If the value
is “2”, the time format is YY:MM:DD
If it is set and you don’t want to do any other changes, press and hold
the SET button for 3 beeps to exit the parameter menu.
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Set the night mode
The clock has an alarm function with snooze option. To enable the
alarm function, do this:
Press and hold the SET button for 3 beeps to enter the parameter
menu. By pressing the SET button, step to the parameter #11. Press
the ADJUST button change the “0” (zero) value to “1”. Now the alarm
function is enabled. Press and hold the SET button for 3 beeps to exit
the parameter menu.
Set the alarm
When it is dark at night you may not want to have the clock with its
full brightness or you may want to switch it o.
By default the clock enters its “night” mode at 11 pm, the LED color
lights are OFF and the nixie tubes shows the time dimmed.
To modify these settings enter the parameter menu:
Press and hold the SET button for 3 beeps to enter. By pressing the
SET button briey, step to the parameter #4.
With the ADJUST button set the desired time to activate the night
mode. Only the hours are adjustable which set in 24 hours format
only.
Next, press the SET button once briey the go to parameter #5, here
you can set the time when the night mode ends, using the ADJUST
button.
The last step is decide what the clock should do at night mode, show
the time dimmed, or switch o. Step to parameter #6 by pressing the
“SET” button. With the ADJUST button change the value to “0” (zero)
if you want the clock switched o, set it to “1” if you want to display
the time dimmed.
If you don’t want to do any other changes, press and hold the SET
button for 3 beeps to exit the parameter menu.
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On the bottom of the right tube under the nixie characters an orange
light turns on. This indicate that the alarm is activated.
Now press the ALARM button briey once to check the alarm time.
The clock after a few seconds switches back to showing the time. To
change the alarm press and hold the ALARM button for 2 beeps. Set
the hour by pressing the ADJUST button. Press the SET button briey
to go to set the minutes. To exit press and hold the SET button for two
beeps.
The alarm is now set.
When the alarm goes o, you can press the ALARM button once, to
snooze it. The orange alarm indicator light is blinking, it means the
alarm will go o again.
If you want to turn the snooze o, but keep the alarm for the next day,
press and hold the ALARM button for 2 beeps while the alarm is beep-
ing. The orange indicator light will stop blinking, lights continuously.
It means the alarm is set for the next day.
If you want to switch o the alarm, press and hold the ALARM button
for 3 beeps, but only when the alarm is not beeping. The alarm indica-
tor light is now OFF. The will be no more alarm until it switched back
by press and hold the ALARM button for 3 beeps.
Choosing dierent tube light options
The clock has two colored light mode options for the tube lighting.
1. Day/Night light mode - The tubes have a set color ON when day-
time starts, set by parameter #4 and changes when “Night Mode
starts set by parameter #5.
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Change the tube colors
One of the most fun function of the Lamina Nixie Clock, that you can
change the LED lighting colors around the nixie tubes.
This function may seem complicated, but at the end it will be real fun.
There are one RGB LED light in each acrylic tank around the nixie
tubes. To see a particular color, it needs to be mixed from red, green,
and blue light. Each of these three colors have a brightness value from
0-255. Zero when the light source is OFF, 255 at full brightness. The
color mixing chart give you some basic information how to mix the
colors.
2. AM/PM LED light mode - The tubes have a set AM color from mid-
night till noon, at 12:00 the color changes to the PM color.
Day Mode/Night mode values can dim or switch the lights OFF for the
night.
The night time brightness of the lights can be set to zero to maximum.
(parameter #25)
To choose between day/night light mode and AM/PM LED light
mode go to parameter #19. Set the values to
“0” to have no lights at all,
“1” to day/night light mode,
“2” to day/night light mode with ashing eect,
“3” for AM/PM light mode,
“4” for color scan mode, when the lights change the colors
randomly.
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The color of the nixie tube characters can not be changed!
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