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The LEDs under the base unit itself, they will flash to indicate a safety shutdown. If it's going off without those flashing it may be a fault. Have you installed the backup battery pack in the power controller case?. no LEDs flashing under the base - in fact i have never seen LEDs under base shini...

Tony wrote:Any LEDs under the base flashing when it does it?. That would indicate a protection shutdown.

do you mean the blue leds at the base of the nixies? yes .. these do go off / out for the same time the nixies are blanking ..

i did not yet notice any other leds blinking / flashing when this happens

as far as i can tell it is not moving .. its on the other side of the room - about five meters away - and most of the times whwn i notice this i am sitting safely and quitely on the sofa on the other side of the room (and nobody else is moving around in the room) and we are not an earthquake prone a...

this is a behaviour of Time flies i noticed recently (do not know if this has been going on for longer and i just never noticed) occassionally (and i have not yet been able to find if they do it regularily or at specific times) the nixie tubes blank (go black) for about half a second, then display 0...

how is the magnet fixed to the floating base .. ? i do not want ot use foce to take it off

i will measure the centers - perhaps i just had the impression its off center becasue of the twist (was just eyeballing it)

which position is on? towards the side or towards the center of the box .. ?

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please disregard this question - found the answer in another post ..

the floater holding the nixies is floating level (horizontal) but its long axis is twisted (in the horizontal plane) by about 25 or 30 degrees off the long axis of the base . also - the center of the floater is not over the center of the base, but offset by a few centimeters aong the long axis of th...

there is a tiny sliding switch on the controller box - what does it do?