older LED clock radios

[Adam]

One cool thing I didn't notice until I turned the radio on in the dark is a blue electroluminescent dial scale. Although it's very dim, really only noticeable in the dark. I'm not really sure how bright it's supposed to be.

I also noticed a very soft very high pitched ringing (you have to put your ear right up to the unit to hear it at all), that either goes away, or changes pitch depending on the setting of the brightness control for the clock.

I actually can't find much on this radio, other than a few other pictures online. This model's not even listed in my sams index.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by Adam

One cool thing I didn't notice until I turned the radio on in the dark is a blue electroluminescent dial scale. Although it's very dim, really only noticeable in the dark. I'm not really sure how bright it's supposed to be.

It may have been designed that way on purpose -- so that the radio dial wouldn't light up so bright it would wake a person up. If the sleep timer were being used (and if this radio had one), the user would want the radio to put him or her to sleep with music; any kind of bright dial scale would defeat the purpose of the timer, unless the user was one of those rare people who could sleep through anything, including bright lights (!).

[Phil Nelson]

I didn't realize there were VFD tubes, either. Dieter's Nixie World has plans for a VFD tube clock:

http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nix...l-100/sylv.htm

Phil Nelson

[RDusel]

Wow, that VFD clock is very cool. Too bad you can't find a model number, I'd love to search for one.
And thanks for the mention of the Tamura Lumitime clock. I looked on Ebay for one and there were no clocks but there was a seller with an NOS Lumitone clock radio. Brand new in the box.
I was outbid on the auction, then the seller contacted me and said he had another new one from his uncles storage locker. It arrived last week, expensive but looking great as I took it out of the box. Everything looks new and works perfect, not bad for an item sitting around since 1974.
Thanks for mentioning some very cool early digital clocks in this thread, they are a favorite of mine as well.
A GE/Telechron was my first digital clock radio when I was growing up and man was I disappointed when I saw half of the display go dead and found 2 lightbulbs and a mechanical movement. Wish I still had that one too.. lol