Ha :) At atmospheric it's more a matter of breakdown voltage though any remaining mercury vapour will lower it. A little too much UV I think from those tubes, really prefer orange....
Tony. On Sep 4, 7:55 pm, Adam Jacobs <a...@jacobs.us> wrote: > I was thinking of that as well... What is the voltage needed to cause > ionization in air? > > -Adam > > On 9/4/2012 11:48 AM, John Rehwinkel wrote: > > > > > > > > >> I'm mostly interested in tubes with missing segments but would > >> consider hard to start as well as they may do what I need. Cracked or > >> gassy are no use - it needs to light up. > > You tempt me to take one of my cracked ones and hook it up to > > several kilovolts - it'll light up. > > > - John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.