I would expect that a leaky tube would be suffering from contamination. This wiki article is a good description of how these tubes work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas-filled_tube#Gas_purity
On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 10:11:43 PM UTC-5, Trumpeter wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have what was a nos set of tubes in a spectrum 18, running at 170v. At > least two tubes display incomplete digits. I have the PIR sensor installed > it may be even less than 1000 hours. Could I be doing something wrong or > just a bad batch of tubes? They are all the same date code. > -- 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/ab194571-ef07-4767-8dec-b03c0d03baed%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
