Hi Greg, You are right, it would, but there is a catch. Ionised particles in the glow will also experience a force (Lorentz force) in the presence of a magnetic field. Here is a demo using my favourite tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1isdFu9Dp0&feature=youtu.be
Alex. On Thursday, October 10, 2013 9:03:29 PM UTC+1, greg...@hotmail.com wrote: > > If iron was used, I wonder if a small magnet would collect sputtered > material ? The magnet could even be external to the tube if it was strong > enough, like those buckyballs that kids were swallowing. Then again, it > might draw sputtered material towards a certain area and cause shorts. > > I know for a fact that IN-1's develop internal shorts between cathodes > when they run with the same digit continuously illuminated. Not only do you > get 2 cathodes glowing simultaneously, the short can be measured with an > ohmmeter. Zapping the shorts slowly causes incandescense, until they > burn-thru. At that point the tube worked again, until it developed another > short. I was tempted to break-open a failed tube, then decided against it > because the mechanical shock would probably break the short and I'd never > find it. > > I assumed the shorts I experienced were tin whiskers. But maybe it was > sputtering. I gave up worrying about it because I switched the IN-1's to > 6091's and the clock has been running perfectly for months now; it used to > fail within a few days. > -- 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/51f4fdac-b327-4e80-97b0-29b1ffc83952%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
