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I've been a Nixie fan for a long time and finally started working with them ~2 years ago. Here is a custom timeline of tweets from my various projects - https://twitter.com/jazzychad/timelines/773442085278085121

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What kind of power draw would a full Nixie implementation of a hours and minutes clock? And what is the typical lifetime of a tube?

Power draw will be a bit higher than what you're used to for LED displays but not excessive, < 10 mA, they start to light up around 90V iirc, lifespan in the 100's of thousands of hours for the newest ones.

Can you recommend a good cost-effective kit/clock for someone to dip their toes into the field with? I've often looked at them, but when forking over a couple of hundred US dollars, a bit of insight into what's what would be ideal :P

Velleman used to sell one, I see it is gone from their line up.

https://www.velleman.eu/products/view/?id=380384

I have nothing but good stuff to say about Elektor so if you can get this shipped you'd be in business.

https://www.elektor.com/six-digit-nixie-clock-150189-71

Thanks for that! I think I might check out the Elektor kit :)

You're welcome. If you buy it and start building it and you get stuck on something let me know and I'll help you out. Remote debugging is fun :)

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