On Wednesday, 2 October 2013 09:25:37 UTC+1, Tidak Ada wrote: > Halogens aren't useful in nixies, because of the working temperature is > much to low. > It is not for nothing halogen incandescent bulbs use small bulbs of quartz > glass to obtain a high temperature of the bulb! >
My understanding was that the quartz glass is not part of the halogen cycle - its only used because the presence of halogens allows the filament to run at a higher temperature and the bulb to have a higher pressure thus giving a whiter, more intense, light - because of this and the smaller bulb, a higher melting point glass is needed. The fact that quartz glass is used is incidental. Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/412b2e40-6c6f-4c53-9a0f-f121b7703282%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
