For most of us the warm soft subtle glow of neon is a pleasure to behold. However, there is a point where it can lose its appeal.
I was rooting around in my graveyard of pinball displays recently and found a badly cooked one. For some perverse reason I decided to fire it up to see what it looks like and it is not pretty. Bally, in their wisdom, decided that they would make their high voltage circuit fail at max voltage. They argued that a pinball machine with no visible display would take no money, whereas one with frying displays would continue to attract coins. In the case of the one I just fired up, the silvering on the glass is now so acute it robs the current and glows around the burn points to the extent that most segments will not fire correctly any more and are unreadable. Pictures are here: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/5346257/1/bad?h=083905 What's the worst neon display you ever had? John S -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/SINVDV53W0wJ. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
