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[.Shuggles.] Nixie Clock v1 Version 1.51

[.Shuggles.] Nixie Clock v1
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An RL Nixie Clock is made of several Nixie tubes (cold cathode displays), an electronic
device for displaying numerals or other information using glow discharge. The glass tube
contains a wire-mesh anode and multiple cathodes, shaped like numerals or other symbols.
Applying power to one cathode surrounds it with an orange glow discharge. The tube is
filled with a gas at low pressure, usually mostly neon and often a little mercury or
argon, in a Penning mixture.

Although it resembles a vacuum tube in appearance, its operation does not depend on
thermionic emission of electrons from a heated cathode. It is therefore called a cold-
cathode tube (a form of gas-filled tube), or a variant of neon lamp. Such tubes rarely
exceed 40 °C (104 °F) even under the most severe of operating conditions in a room at
ambient temperature. Vacuum fluorescent displays from the same era use completely
different technology—they have a heated cathode together with a control grid and shaped
phosphor anodes; Nixies have no heater or control grid, typically a single anode, and
shaped bare metal cathodes. [quoted from Wikipedia]

This SL version of a Nixie Clock is made of several prims (land impact 21) for the tubes
and the body. It displays the time and (at seconds 55-59) the current date in GMT. The
timezone can be set in half-hour steps by a menu which opens on touch, so the clock then
displays your local time and date.

The object is copy/mod/no-trans, so you can modify it, e.g. to change the size or colors.
After being rezzed and taken again, it displays as no-mod in your inventory because of
the script inside. You can still modify it when rezzing it again, but just in case, I
suggest making a copy before you rez or modify it.

To update or redeliver a product, wear the included Updater and follow the instructions.
Store policies and info about custom scripting at my MP store and the inworld terminals.

See item in Second Life
  • Displays time and date
  • 6 Nixie tubes
  • Nice blending effect
  • Uses GMT time by default
  • Timezone can be set by a menu