Retro Russian "NIXIE" VFD Clock ELEKTRONIKA 7
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- The sickest VFD russian clock out there! the big ELEKTRONIKA 7. an absolute beauty and from what i've heard were all over russia. If you have seen these before please comment where! I'd love to know how widespread these clocks are or were.
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I do say NIXIE in the vaguest sense of the word. they aint really nixie tubes, however they are often mis described as so. These are very early iterations of vacuum fluorescent displays,, VFD you'll have seen VFD displays all over, from tape player displays to car dashboards..... next on the VFD train! is using these for DISTORTION. a year back i bought a fair few IV 11 tubes, (search em up they are beautiful) time to get em effecting soundzzzz
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This clock is still working in my university, RSTU, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Nice videos, dude
Cool! I love Soviet electronics and engineering. "Many a great design was ruined because the engineer didn't know when to stop". Good advice.
Ждём, когда Сэм купит себе ПОЛИВОКС и начнёт его тюнинговать.
как бы с ума не сошел ))
Эх... Если бы Вы написали это по английски...)
Эх... Если бы Вы написали это по английски...)
Я бы посмотрел на это
"Поливокс" сегодня ещё дороже чем KORG MS-20, тогда я думаю, он просто построит себя реплику.
machines.hyperreal.org/manufacturers/Formanta/Polivoks/schematics/
@LookMomNoComputer: try this beast :)
I've seen this clock in University in which my Grandad works!
Fun fact: You can synchronize the time of the clock to the real time by using special tones that are broadcasted every hour on some radio stations in Russia (Radio Mayak, for example, still uses these tones)
itogi wow! Ok well I’ll do some research on that! Part two will be that and changing dim tubes
this requires a special board -- since I didn't see a ferrite antena inside Your unit, you may need to build one first. And attach some serious (100ft ?) MW aerial to it
The name of this clock is ELEKTRONIKA 7-06K-07.
And why does this clock need a special board?
@@Cassia-Aurea aaah thats fair enough. ill have a look. i probably wont then!! however i do have access to a pretty big ass arial. however im feeling that the signal would definitely not reach the uk. or would it?
@itogi 2:51 Nothing was connected to sync input on counter board, so i guess the module is missing
Feels really weird to see it in a non-post-Soviet setting.
Nikita Elizarov I can imagine
Cool Clock, yepp could be a backup battery thing, in case some reactors go off and black out...
Love your enthusiasm and I'm always entertained by your videos. Cheers!
I love this clockkkk. i do say NIXIE in the vaguest sense of the word. they aint really nixie tubes, however they are often mis described as so. These are very early iterations of vacuum fluorescent displays,, VFD you'll have seen VFD displays all over, from tape player displays to car dashboards.....
Heres a list of few things i look back and think damn that was stupid to say in hindsight!.... :----
- They are probably MOSFETS not transistors.
- Im looking for the Grid voltage, as the actual signal pins wouldnt give a proper reading as they are probably multiplexed.
-the 9v bay is connected to the actual supply! i did think it was backup for a bit but it stangely wasnt :S since this video i have added a 9v backup battery as i was sick of it constantly forgetting the time when i left the studio haha.
WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING ME REPLACE THE TUBES AND ALSO SYNC IT UP TO THE RUSSIAN RADIO TONES THAT SYNC ALL THESE CLOCKS TOGETHER??????
@@andrewwarholla9703 nice! silicon valley of russia!
The factory that produced this clock is in my city, and is called 'Кремний'. In addition to the clock, this factory produced tape recorders, electronic organs and even a vocoder.
Could the 9V of batteries just be holding over the clock only when power fails? so that you do not need to re-set the clock when power goes? so no VFD, just oscillator & timing circuits?
@@WouterWeggelaar yeah! i initially thought so! but the 9v, is plugged up to the main power. so no idea whats going on! but after this video i disconnected the 9v bay and put a 9v battery in to just keep the clock brains running, so it didnt forget the time all the time :)
It stinks that those tubes are so dim. Do you plan on replacing them?
On 2:40 and 4:40 it's mostly likely "Void if removed" seals made of plasticine
I have never seen somebody get so excited about dead insects- good vid mate
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nice!
Far from the forrest, Fillipe finds a freak-nose frog and fills it with friendship.
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER LMFAO CHOICE!
Nice clock. Yeah, we still have plenty of them in Russia. Very accurate description, even got the IV-26'es right. The actual nixie tubes weren't made in 1992 but they had huge stocks of those IV tubes and kept making them until 1994 or something. They still do make those clocks but with LEDs.
The interesting fact is that some models of this clock could actually sync the clock up with the cable radio network hourly sync pulses. Back in the day, every household had a cable in-house radio.
thanks for showing this, just great!!
Dude your videos are amazing! Thanks :D
I used to have this clocks in my school in Russia back in 2000.
I like how this took a turn toward LOOK MUM NO VERTIBRATES for a bit.
So cute seeing you examining old russian parts. These are so common around here, it feels really cool seeing someone else from SDIY circles being surprised with those weird looking diodes and stuff x) in fact, those are the least weird things you may find in russian electronics....
Русские лукасы ставим, чтобы нас видели )))
I love this channel, I found it a couple of months ago and it just blows my mind the amount of creativity that this man has. As someone who runs a studio and loves tinkering with old broken stuff this is fucking heaven!
I've seen this model in my school. Nice video!
wow that's a weird looking gameboy
haha. yeah shooting the next update on monday! hopefully be up here on wednesday.. basically i have sorted out what exactly is going in and out of each gameboy. aswell as a number of problems solved!! you'll hear a bank of 8 working lovely to keyboard on wednesday! i update on that project quite a lot on my instagram stories!
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER I've seen your upgrades on instagram so I know you're working hard, its just that it caught me off guard a bit
Ееее, наши русские часы Электроника)
ага, позорно, что у нас на физике не показывали начинку этих часов, а вели всякую скукоту.
@@KiR_3d Будто Вы бы что то поняли)
Cyka blat
@@rainy2063 Да вроде нормально :)
меня бы это заинтересовало! Лучшее, что было - радио-кружки, да и то... там скучновато было. А теперь - их вообще прикрыли.
you are hillarious. lovely jobly!
Congratulation Comrade!
My school had these hanging at the main hall. The bell system for breaks was wired into it at one point through some fancy timers, which eventually broke and nobody could fix them, so they hired a "guard" guy who would just press a regular doorbell button (where the bells were rewired to) at certain times to signal when classes ended. Geeeeeeeeeee this brings memories!
Oh yeah!!! Then I was kid i was going to swim on pool in my home region ( Serpukhov ). This clock with green numbers feels me up a lot of memories . It was 1996-1998.And this clock is still there, seems like 30 years to go
Yep, we had this one in our school :)
This would be perfect for dismantling and making into an EQ display on your synth rack...
"So many insects!" ahaha )) You're lucky there is no cockroaches! These bastards are really hard to get rid off! (beware)
Thanks for the autopsy, Sam! I see this inside the 1st time in my life actually :)))
As Nikita Travkin wrote, these plasticin pieces are warranty seals. So you are out of warranty now ))
We had these in our local studio. I love, when they show 89:65 or something like that.
5:48 интересно! ebay может рассмотреть это как куплю-продажу мёртвых животных?...
электроника 7 сами по себе зверь)
Yeah, I had these in my school.
Hahaha!!! I had this in my watchlist forever as well!! So glad you got it instead of me!
the innards really look like those of my Russian synths (Polivoks, Altair and Pif): a rat's nest of cables, old circuit boards, huge condensers and diodes, massive transformers and lots of dust bunnies... but no bugs in mine (except a few logical ones...)!
Now that was cool, and now want one...
very cool
great gig at ace’s last week dude.. thanks
It looks like a counter or a chronometre from an old TV game show, maybe to answer questions for a while ! !
Nice job !
im seeing this every day :3
"Its right higgledy piggledy, this..." LOL LOL you're like the best dude ever.
This clock also had synchronization via a wired radio for which there is a DIN 5 connector on the side wall. When a certain signal arrived, they were rounded up to the nearest hour.
There are still several of these hanging around my university. They are in similarly mediocre condition but nobody has bothered to throw them out yet.
My school still has it :D
Damn! I was eating breakfast when you started peeling out these bugs.
Very cool clock my bruv
I have one in my living room. It's the coolest piece of furniture ever. 25 euros from an estonian flea market. Best deal of my life.
Two of these are still in working condition in my work.
whattabeauty!
I would think that the batteries aren't for the tubes but to preserve the clock's memory in case of temporary power failure. Having to climb up and reprogram it would be a pain in the butt.
Oh man love those funky old soviet DIP ICs
I got 2 of them (the little model called 06m) but the display is freezing on the 1st one and the display does not go beyond 10 o clock on the second one. Too bad.
i have one in my room now. in turkey. it's made in 1989. I've bought from flea market in izmir turkey.
that battery compartment is for "memory" only. it saves time when power goes. else you need to set time every time.
also in my unit in that battery compartment there are 2 spare tubes and fuse and user manual. I'm planning add a 9 volt battery there because setting time every power loss is frustrating :)
BUT I ALREADY BOUGHT MYSELF SO MANY PRESENTS!!!
I'm pretty certain the battery section is for a backup up for mains failure.
That company made loads of cool stuff. Check out their calculators. I think you could get some sounds out of those.
it's correct!
Aw 😂 pretty fantastic!!!
Dude I've seen so many of these clocks in my Soviet childhood!
Greeting from Russia! You are great!
Nixie tubes are still being made as there popular and people still want them it also gives that nice fall out effect
Greetings from Rusia! I had the same clock in my gymnasium!))
I had the exact same insects in my Junost organ
I wonder if an induction mic would get any interesting sounds out of that. Something like the Cro-Magnet or the Magnet Opus from Crank Sturgeon. Great video!
are some of lamps never in use to show a nomber? like the 3rd from top 3rd from left side?
i guess so!
Классно! У нас в универе такие висят до сих пор в спортзале)
Cool! There's one hanging on the wall at gym of my university)
Thank for your videos, i am not alone! Maybe tell how it smells?
Synth question, can you make a synth out of a lite bright
3:18 Yep, That's a diode. It's a D0-203AB package diode.
It’s not a regular diode. It’s a zener diode. According to chip serie (K176) which is 9V CMOS, the diod is probably Д814Б katod-anod.ru/rd/d814
I have one these clocks and it worked beautifully for 2 years, then one day the hours started skipping to the next hour very quickly, many times in a second and at different speeds. It just keeps jumping to the next hour 0 to 24 very quickly. Anyone know how I can find a fix for that?
One of them is at Reactor 1 control room at Chernobyl NPP.
How nice of you to show all those dead insects and stuff while im eating my cake ^^... still very intresting video and clock. Love your vids
The classiest video to date LMNC. Your late night Ebay impulse was good. Maybe we could get a video of you replacing the tubes, if its not too much to ask?
yep! im thinking that toooooo
What can you do with a blipblox made from playtime?
What’s that cool looking t shirt in the background? ;)
the battery compartment lol
What a beauty! Looks nice in the dark too.
Do you reckon the 11V has something to do with different mains in Russia, or maybe somethings gone wrong with age?
You can find some legendary Soviet analog synths like Polyvox on ebay
wish you could fix this, also I'm russian and I've seen clocks like this a lot of times.
This clock is featured in the Chernobyl 1986 film on Netflix. You can see it in the background at 59:19. Many of the elements seem to be faulty.
You perfectly pronounced its name
да, у нас раньше норм были синты
Sam cosplaying Dave Jones (or Big Clive) How lovely. Also, greetings from Russia, never seen that watch though, seen with red light ones
Mine is not working and I have no clue how to fix it.
Hope yo have a lovely of storage mate
Круто.
Sam, have you seen the ring mod made by Electronic Peasant using a vfd and magnet?
Duuuude
Tube oscillator and filter/fuzz combo?
Зачем у Коковина из гаража часы свиснул?
Сашке показывали это видео уже?
SUGGESTION FOR A NEW VIDEO: oscillator using an old wired phone. i mean the noise they do when you press keys must come from some kind of sound circuitry or IC, and given the fact that old electronics is really easy to hack and that those phones are fairly common even nowadays, it should make a nice video. Also i think it's intersting to know how old phones worked.
9:42 - Sounds a bit like Dial-up-core.. Screechy and dark!
Or even 8-bit tapeloader-core!!
Is there any musical applications for these mixie tubes? Preamp or trem/vibe. Or some other modulation madness! Could be some interesting experimentation for someone with knowledge like you.
The Electronic Peasant has a cool effect that's based on the ringing that VFDs have; you basically send your signal through and pick it up like a mechanical reverb. He calls it a ring modulator (which it's not really) but it's a cool effect nonetheless.
+Crash That sounds kinda awesome. I could probably find all sorts of uses for a circuit like that. On guitar, bass, synths and drum machines. I bet Vox too. Is it expensive? It's just because gear is more expensive here in Australia. Shitty exchange rate. Yeah but I'm still guessing that nixie tube has preamp, effect and oscillator possibilities. I'm just a sucker for the sounds of old soviet era synths and drum machines. Someone should re-release some of that classic Russian music tech. But in Eurorack format. I would bet my left nut they would sell without a problem.
@@johnfkay8341 If you scrounge around a bit all of the parts can be had for essentially free, all you need is an old VFD, a semi-strong magnet, a power amp to drive it, and a way to mic it up (Electronic Peasant says an electret mic, but you could probably use any mic sensitive enough, or a piezo).
VFDs can totally be used as amps, too. You can get them to behave like triodes, so preamps, power amps, and probably oscillators are all fair game. I'm not too well versed in VFD stuff but the Peasant has a page on vacuum tube synth building, too, which probably wouldn't be terribly difficult to adapt if you know what you're doing (neat stuff!).
Actual nixies are probably more limited in function beyond display (and again, I'm not super knowledgeable about nixies, either), but you might be able to use one as a type of compressor/limiter like Look Mum No Computers lightbulb compressor.
And fuck yeah bud, old Soviet stuff is fucken awesome. Nice vintage sounds, and I love the sense of history and mystique you get from old Russian synths and pedals that were never (or poorly) documented in English. It's real neat stuff.
Elektronika seem to have a penchant for the narrow parallel circuit boards and the wooden boxes. I have one of their 12-011 multi-effect pedals that's built in a very similar way. It's a shame that most it it completely falls apart when you touch it with a soldering iron though.
That's interesting. You could bend em to make weird patterns, right?
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at work the same ЭЛЕКТРОНИКА 7
2:07 My life-motto xD
these were fucking everywhere
I love this u always make my sad exsinctance seem so Beautiful with such a heavy god creature u are ur just so dreammie
You can get replacement NOS VFD tubes from ebay, too. Just search "soviet vfd"
Yours are quite worn out. They are supposed to be really bright so you can easily see the numbers from a distance.
How could it be 110v when thay use 230v in rusia?
it ent. just reading what the transformer had on it. :)
Weird. I was just looking at one of these on eBay and you post this.... BTW you could replace the tubes (they're pretty cheap) and get it looking new again.
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Pretty sure the 9V just keeps the clock running if power is out. Doubt it will power the tubes.