On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 6:52 PM Nicholas Stock <nickst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a lot of IV22 VFDs and IV4/17's. The differences in the backgrounds > can be quite varied from what I've seen.....I don't think they were > particularly bothered by it for their intended use case (behind a filter)? > Indeed Nick. Or as long as they were consistent within a production run nobody cared. > > I'd second your question with regards what to do with duff nixies....over > 20 years, I've accumulated quite a few duds that I don't want to just chuck > away!! > Well, the seller from whom I got the IN-16's claims that people use them for clocks or re-gas them. For the latter you'd better look for an Alchimist and I don't think re-gasing small tubes makes sense as of 2020 (yet). As for building clocks with duff nixies, I realised that it is not about building "nixie clocks" but probably "clocks with nixie parts", like sticking their digits on the dial face! Given the small lot I've got I might begin using these digits to add a timestamp on my clocks :) Other uses would be as former USSR souvenirs, novelty items to visitors, ... at 50c a piece for IN-14 makes almost sense. Deviating from the subject of the thread, few of those IN-16's happily react to HVAC with lavender/violet discharge. So, either Neon has outgassed leaving Argon alone (heavier atomic mass), or those tubes were never inflated with Neon (production error/end). The question is ... how much DC voltage should I need to light it up as a Nixie? 300V were not enough. Paolo -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CABj2VabEftmRhKSO78TjgGX4G6FSuyXmw%2BpSvZRLznQSot0WRw%40mail.gmail.com.
