Bad Dog Designs Nixie Clocks 6 TUBE NIXIE CLOCK How To Operate

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HOW TO OPERA TE YOUR

6 TUBE NIXIE CLOCK

There are four buttons that have the following functions:

SET: Exit tube test routine on cold power-up; Show date; Set: time, date; Enter conﬁguration menu;

ADJ: Adjust: time, date, alarm time, conﬁguration parameters;

ALARM: Set alarm time; snooze; cancel snooze/alarm;

DST: Toggle between DST and Standard time (+/- 1 Hour); Enter colour / Led setup menu.

Setting the Time and Date:

From time display mode, press and hold 'SET' button for 2 seconds until the seconds digits are highlighted.

Press the 'ADJ' button to reset seconds to zero. Brieﬂy Press 'SET' again and the minutes will be highlighted

Press the 'ADJ' button to set the minutes. Brieﬂy Press 'SET' again and the hours will be highlighted. Press

the 'ADJ' button to set the hours. Proceed in this fashion to set the calendar: Year, Month and Day. Finally,

brieﬂy Press 'SET' again to revert to normal clock operation.

Showing Date:

From time display mode, brieﬂy press 'SET' button. Date will be shown for 5 seconds, then revert to time

display.

Manual RFT Call:

In DCF / MSF modes, pressing 'ADJ' brieﬂy during time display will initiate a manual time seek for maximum

6 minutes, or until a valid time frame is received.

Setting Alarm:

Press the 'ALARM' Button. The seconds digits show the on / o status of the alarm: 00 or 01 (o or on). Set

on / o status, then minutes followed by hours by using the 'ALARM' and 'ADJ' buttons. When set, the

alarm LED will also light (if ﬁtted on the clock)

Cancelling Alarm:

Press 'ALARM' brieﬂy to cancel alarm and enter snooze mode, or a longer press until the clock bleeps, to

cancel snooze. Alarm remains set for the next day.

Rapid Daylight Savings Time Adjustment:

Press 'DST' brieﬂy to toggle between DST and standard time. The indicator (where ﬁtted) shows whether

DST mode is active or not. If the time has been synchronised from DCF or MSF sources, this light will be set

or cleared automatically. It can still be manually overridden, however the system will re-set the DST status

again at the next valid time sync.

Note, the GPS time date does not contain any DST information, so the DST status will need to be set

manually in GPS Sync mode, as well as manual time-set mode.

Page 1 HOW TO OPERA TE YOUR 6 TUBE NIXIE CLOCK There are four buttons that have the following functions: SET: Exit tube test routine on cold power-up; Show date; Set: time, date; Enter conﬁguration menu; ADJ: Adjust: time, date, alarm time, conﬁguration parameters;...
Page 2 Calibration of Timekeeping accuracy: If you are not using a GPS or WiFi signal to set the time, the clock uses an inbuilt quartz crystal to regulate time. However over time you may observe the clock runs faster or slower than an accurate time standard. You can ﬁnely adjust the timekeeping by setting conﬁguration parameters 20 and 21.
Page 3 Parameter Description Values Radio time signal 0 – 3 reserved source Note 3 – GPS or WiFi module - Transponder GPS Baud rate 0 – 4.8 Kbps – 9.6 Kbps (Default) - 13 (default 0): Note 4 Radio time o set hours Radio time o set mins - 45 (default 0): Note 4 Radio time o set...
Page 4 All clocks and tubes come with a years warranty from purchase date as standard. Tube failures are rare, even though the tubes are some 40 years old before they are used by us to make into a clock. Bad Dog Designs Nixie Clocks Ltd Unit 2...