Yes. That is a quick test to check that the horizontal is actually being generated.
On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 10:19:14 PM UTC-5 charles wrote: > On 2021-01-12 2:48 p.m., Paul Andrews wrote: > > I have a whole bunch of Predictas. I'll try it but I doubt it will work > > because of the large gap between the CRT and the safety glass. Here are > > the two I have restored: > > you can get a neon lamp to glow at the Plate cap of the Horizontal > output tube, on tube TV sets. NO doubt a Nixie could also glow. while > their is a bunch of High voltage on the other side of a CRT screen, it > is DC and so will not give out a field. The CRT I am using to type > this hardly shows any static when it is running. > > -- > Charles MacDonald VA3CPY Stittsville Ontario > cm...@zeusprune.ca Just Beyond the Fringe > No Microsoft Products were used in sending this e-mail. > -- 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/32edf039-97e4-4801-9b8b-64fb1fbea319n%40googlegroups.com.
