I picked up this cool nixie counter recently and finally tested it last night. It works great, but only with an external clock source, and there are several wires around the oven that are disconnected or cut and taped. I'm assuming that means that the oscillator malfunctioned, and the last owner used an external clock and disconnected the oven to save the heat.
I don't use a central time source, so my options seem to be to repair the stock oscillator, or leave it unhooked and jimmy in an oscillator IC. I know that the 5245M's big claim to fame is the stability and accuracy of the oscillator, but frankly I dabble in AF and don't have much use for ppms. (I was also going to play around with using a voltage to frequency converter to use it as an absurd voltmeter.)
Am I correct in thinking that I should just run a cheap clock oscillator and be done with it?