Lamina Nixie Clock Lamina Nixie User manual

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 eects.
Make your unique clock more unique! The easy access setup menu
gives many possibilities to set your favorite colors to dierent 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 briey 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 modied.
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 briey, 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 briey, 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 briey, 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 briey 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 briey 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 briey
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 dierent 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 eect,
“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!

Color reference chart
BASIC COLORS: R (1) - G (2) - B (3) values
R=255, G=0, B=0
R=0, G=255, B=0
R=0, G=0, B=255
R=255, G=125, B=0
R=255, G=255, B=255
R=0, G=255, B=255
R=80, G=0, B=255
R=255, G=0, B=255
R=255, G=40, B=0
R=0, G=0, B=0
RED
GREEN
BLUE
YELLOW
WHITE
CYAN
VIOLET
MAGENTA
ORANGE
DARK/LIGHTS OFF
2 3 3 2 5 5
Example: Parameter 23 - (Afternoon, PM, LED color)
The B (blue) value of the color is on maximum (255)
Parameter 23 Third (BLUE) color from RGB mix Value of 255 from range 0-255
Feel free to experiment with your own colors by giving dierent values.
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An example, change the date color
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Press and hold the SET button for 3 beeps to enter the parameter
menu. By pressing the SET button briey, step to the parameter #17,
20, 21, 22 or 23 to change the colors.
parameter #17: is the color of the tubes when the clock show the
date.
Change the color of the lights when the clock shows the day.
Go to parameter #17
Now you see the following numbers on the nixie tubes: 17-11-50
This means you are at parameter #17-..-.., the next character, ‘..-1.-..’
means you are setting the RED channel, ..-.1-50 is the value (bright-
ness) of the RED channel. In this case 150.
Press the ALARM button once, now the numbers are 17-20-00. On the
third nixie tube the number changed to ‘2’, this is the GREEN channel,
the value behind 000, so it is OFF, no green color in the mix of magen-
ta. Press ALARM button again and now the third nixie character is 255,
this is the BLUE value at its maximum in the mix of magenta.
To step between the color channels just press ALARM button once at
the time.
To summarize, the third nixie character shows the RGB settings, ‘1’
means the RED channel, ‘2’ means GREEN channel, ‘3’ is the BLUE. To
change the values of each channel, just go to one of the RGB color
and by pressing the ADJUST button change the value.
For example, if you want to change this color to green the RGB setting
should be the following:
R (red) value: 000, G (green): 255, B (blue): 000

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At parameter #17 set press and hold the ADJUST button for 3 beeps,
this reset all the colors at this parameter to zero.
No light will go OFF, as all the brightness values are zero.
Now you are the the red color setup the clock shows: 17-10-00, press
ALARM button once, now you are at the green color: 17-20-00. Press
ALARM button one more time and now you are at the blue color:
17-20-00.
To set it green press ALARM button to go to the green channel
(17-20-00)
Press ADJUST a few times. Now you see some green light, but step-
ping to the maximum value 255 would take long time. You can do 2
things. One is to press and hold the ADJUST button to reverse the
value step direction, now if you press the ADJUST the value numbers
will step backward. Set to value 255 and now the green color is at full
brightness. The other way to change the color values is to press and
hold the ADJUST button for 4 beeps and keep it pressed. Now the
numbers are changing faster.
The green color is set for the date, time to EXIT the parameter menu,
press and hold the SET button for 3 beeps.
Check the clock, press the SET button once to show the date. The
color of the acrylic tube should change its color to green.
To change it back to magenta, use the following values:
Red: 150, Green: 000, Blue: 255

Further color settings:
Tube color mode I.
parameter #20: day mode color, day light period set in parameter #4
and #5
parameter #21: night mode color, night light period set in parameter
#4 and #5
Tube color mode II.
parameter #22: AM tube color, from midnight till noon.
parameter #23: PM tube color, from noon till midnight.
Showing date periodically
The clock shows the date in every 10 minutes by default. If you
want to change this or switch this function OFF go to parameter#
15, refer the PARAMETER CHART for values.
Using WiFi for time synchronization
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If your clock equipped with built-in Wi-Fi unit it can synchronize the
exact time by connecting it to your 2.4 Ghz wireless network. The
clock checks the network every hours to synchronize.
Go to parameter #28 to enable/disable the Wi-Fi or GPS sync.
If the value is “0”, there is no time sync, if the value is “1”the clock is set
for GPS time sync (optional external GPS unit required), Value “2”
enables the Wi-Fi connection.
Set the parameter to value “2” for Wi-Fi, then go to parameter 29 to
reset the Wi-Fi module by pressing the ADJUST button briey. The
value character which is “0” will shows “1” for a short moment when
you press the ADJUST button.

You may leave the clock now. Use your laptop, computer, tablet,
mobile phone to connect to the clock. Look for SSID (Wi-Fi network)
Lamina-Nixie-Clock and connect.
It will ask for the password: laminanixie
Wait for connection and open your web browser and go the following
address (without www or http://...only these numbers without space)
192.168.8.1
and hit enter. You see a login/conguration page to connect your
Lamina Nixie Clock to the 2.4 GHz wireless network.
Enter your SSID (network name) and your network password. Press
Enter/Submit.
Now your clock can connect to your own network to synchronize the
time. Pay attention to enter the required information accurately.
Now go back to your clock for further settings. Press SET button once
to go to parameter #30.
The clock synchronized to the UTC/GMT time, which is in most cases
not your current local time. At this parameter you can set the oset
hours of your location from UTC/GMT time zone. E.g.: New York is -6
hours from GMT at day light saving period (DST), in this case the value
would be 6.
There is no oset minutes, skip parameter #31, go to parameter, #32
to set the direction of the oset hour positive or negative. For New
York you need the negative, set the value to “1”.
How to check your oset hours/minutes?
Just type to your internet browser: “Current Local Time” and you will
see the current time at your location, including the GMT oset hours.
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Your clock is set, press and hold the SET button for 3 beeps to exit the
parameter menu.
Press and hold the ADJUST button for 2 beeps to manually connect
your Lamina Nixie Clock to your network.
The two neon light in the clock’s base are alternately ashing, and the
small light turns on under the middle tank.
If the clock can connect to your network the alternate ashing lights
stop, and the small light under the tank is continuously lit. If the con-
nection did not happened for any reason, the small tank light will
blink. You can repeat the manual sync to press again the ADJUST
button.
If there is no connection go over on the the previous steps from the
point where you reset parameter #29.
If your wi network is not 2.4 GHz, the this function will not work.
If your location using daylight saving time (DST), the oset hours
need be set accordingly twice a year.
PARAMETER CHART
For more settings enter the clock parameter menu. To do this press
and keep pressed the SET button for 3 beeps. Pressing the SET button
once 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.
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XX-XX.XX
0: 12Hr mode, 1: 24 Hr mode
0: MM:DD:YY,
1: DD:MM:YY,
2: YY:MM:DD
0: OFF, 1: ON/Show
0
1
1
23:00
(11 PM)
06:00
(6 AM)
1
10
90
1
30
0
1
2
0
2
1
MAGENTA
2
Firmware version
12/24 Hr format
Date display format
Leading Zero
Character Show/Hide
Hour of "Night Mode"
start
End of "Night Mode"
Nixie operation in
"Night mode"
Brightness of the Nixies
in "Night Mode"
Brightness of the Nixies
in "Day Mode"
Character fading
Period of "Night Mode"
override
Alarm Repeat Mode
Snooze period
(4 times, then OFF)
Dot light in "Day Mode"
Dot light in "Night Mode"
Auto Date display
ON/OFF
Auto Date Backlight
Color Changing ON/OFF
Color of Backlight in
Auto Date Mode RGB variables (see color value chart)
Nixie counting effect
0: None, 1: 5 min., 2: 10 min,
3: 15 min., 4: 20 min.
0: OFF, 1: ON, 2: blinking, 3: slow
blinking, 3: AM/PM, 4: AM/PM blinking
0: OFF, 1: Each minute 50-55 sec),
2: Every 10min 50-55 sec,
3: Each hour 50-55 sec
0: OFF, 1: ON
0: OFF, 1: every min.,
2: every 10min.
3: every hour, 4: at midnight
0 -> 23 Hr (24Hr format only)
0 -> 23 Hr (24Hr format only)
0: Nixies OFF,
1: Nixies (Dimmed) ON
0 -> 99
0 -> 99
0 -> 99 sec.
0: Alarm OFF,
1: Alarm enabled each day
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
Parameter Value Default
0: OFF, 1: ON
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0: OFF, 1: ON, 2: blinking, 3: slow
blinking, 3: AM/PM, 4: AM/PM blinking

0: OFF, 1: ON, 2: Blinking/sec.
3: AM/PM color indication,
4: Color scan
Effect LED light
(3 nixie tanks)
RGB variables (see color value chart)
RGB variables (see color value chart)
RGB variables (see color value chart)
RGB variables (see color value chart)
0 -> 255
0 -> 255
0 - Normal brightness,
1 - Half brightness
0: OFF, 1: ON
0: OFF, 1: GPS sync, 2: Wi-Fi sync
0 -> 12
0 -> 45
0: Positive, 1:Negative
1 unit: 0.18sec/day
(+/- 0.18sec/day --> 22sec/day)
At parameter 34 press ADJUST button for 1 beep
to Restore Default Settings, then exit the parameter
menu.
BLUE
3
PURPLE
GREEN
ORANGE
150
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
128
Effect light color
in "Day Mode"
Effect light color
in "Night Mode"
Effect light color
in "AM indication Mode"
Effect light color
in "PM indication Mode"
Overall brightness of
LEDs in "Day Mode"
Overall brightness of
LEDs in "Night Mode"
Half brightness of the
LEDs in "Breath Mode"
LED BREATH effect
GPS Sync. ON/OFF
GPS Time Synch
Offset Hours
GPS Time Synch
Offset Mins
GPS Time Synch
Offset Polarity
Clock Fine Calibrate
Restore Default
Settings
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
Parameter Value Default
press ADJUST once, for 1 beep
Wi-Fi reset
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Explanations of the parameter settings menu
00 - The software version of the clock. Can not be changed!
01 - Dene the time format. Set 24 Hrs format if you like to see afternoon for example 17:35, set 12 Hrs
format if you like to see for example 5:35 PM.
02 - Date format (day-month-year) of the current date.
03 - When the displays are showing a single digit value, for example 8 o'clock at the morning, the
tubes are not showing the "0" digit beside of the "8" character.
04 - The hour when the clock activate the "Night Mode" settings. The tubes are go OFF or dimmed,
based on your settings, and the color eect lights are switch to dimmed or to the given value
which is set in the “night Mode”. Can not be the same as the parameter 05.
05 - The hour when the "Night Mode" ends. Can not be the same as parameter 4
06 - Dene what the Nixie tubes do during night mode. If OFF than they are dark, when ON, the
parameter 07 value takes eect. (Dimmed by default)
07 - The brightness o the nixie digits during "Night mode"
08 - The brightness o the nixie digits during "Day mode"
09 - When the numbers are changing on the nixie tubes value “0” change them directly, value “1” fade
them into each other.
10 - If the tubes are OFF during “Night Mode”, the clock will show you the current time for the
given seconds long what you have set here, when the ADJUST button is pressed once.
11 - If this parameter value is "0" the alarm is disabled, no alarm will goes o, even if its set.
If it set to "1", the daily alarm repeat can be set.
12 - Snooze repeating period. "0" is o, no snooze after the rst alarm goes o. "1" when the alarm
repeat in every 5 minutes, "2" for every 10 minutes, "3" for every 15 minutes and "4" every 20
minutes. The snooze repeat the alarm 4 times then it switches OFF for that day.
13 - Neon lights at DAY TIME in the base of the clock can light continuously, alternately show AM/PM,
ashing, or ON all the time. when the value of this parameter is “0”, the neon lights are OFF.
Value “1” continuously ON, Value “2” ashing lights, Value “3” - slow ashing, “4” - AM/PM indica
tion, left side is on at AM, right side is ON at PM. Value “5”, AM/PM indication, while ashing.
14 - Neon lights at NIGHT TIME, same settings, but for the night period.
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Explanations of the parameter settings menu
15 - If the value is “0” the clock will not show the date automatically. If it is “1” , the date will show
automatically in every 1 minutes, if it is: ”2”, then in every 10 minutes, at value“3”in every hour.
16 - When the date is shown, the color of the LED lights can be set to dierent color.
When it's ON the color of the lamina will change, if its OFF, nothing happens when the date shown
automatically.
17 - The RGB color of the acrylic tanks when the DATE shown. (default color: MAGENTA)
18 -Nixie slot eect when the numbers are rolling periodically. This is an eect function only. Set the
values between “1” - “4” to for repeating. Set “0”to disable it.
19 - Acrylic tank light can be set OFF (”0”), or showing one “Day Mode”color (”1”), (”2”) for the same
color blinking in each second, or switch colors indicating AM and PM time range. The value
(“4”) enables the RGB color, when the Lamina colors are constantly changing.
The RGB scan overrides all other color settings.
20 - "Day Mode" of the acrylic tank light color shown, when the parameter 19 is "1" or "2". To set a color
see the color reference chart and feel free to play with it to nd your favorite settings. (Blue by
default.)
21 - "Night Mode" of the acrylic tank light, when the clock goes to "Night Mode" and parameter 28 is
dierent from "0" To set a color see the color reference chart.
22 - This color indicate the AM time when the parameter 19 is set to "3", indicating AM/PM
timerange. "Night Mode" brightness will apply at parameter“28”. To set a color see the color
reference chart and feel free to play with it to nd your favorite settings. (Green by default.)
23 - This color indicate the PM time when the parameter 19 is set to "3", indicating AM/PM
timerange. "Night Mode" brightness will apply at parameter“28”. To set a color see the color
reference chart and feel free to play with it to nd your favorite settings. (Orange by default.)
24 - Global brightness of all the LED lights during "Day mode"
25 - Global brightness of all the LED lights during "Night mode"
26 - In dark environment the maximum brightness of the 'breath eect' might be too much.
This parameter allows to reduce the brightness. Set to 1 for reduce overall LED brightness during
'breath' eect. This parameter for the 'breath" eect ONLY!
27 - Enable "breath" eect on all the LED lights. All lights are pulsing from low brightness to
higher. This feature overrides all color settings!
28 - The GPS/wi synchronization is ON or OFF. Optional GPS unit needed to enable this function.
Value“0”- synchronization is OFF, Value“1”GPS sync ON, parameter 29 is disabled, or value “2”Wi 
sync enabled.
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