I've been thinking of doing exactly that, with an INS-1, since I bought a hundred of them, except I want the lamp on when the power is on so I'll hook it up to that side.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021, 6:52 PM alb.001 alb.001 <alb....@sympatico.ca> wrote: > I make my own lighted switches... > > I connect NE-2 lamps with a 20 K-ohm resistor at both ends of about 8 > inches wire, drill a small hole in the switch face plate and push the end > of the lamp thru just a little and hot melt glue it in place. If the face > plate is white, you can just glue the lamp to the backside of the faceplate > and it will shine thru. I wire the other ends of the resistors to the hot > and neutral terminals that go to the light. When the light is off, > the neon lamp lights, and when the light is on, the neon is off. You can > find all the light switches in my house at night just by looking for the > neon glow. They have never needed replacing. If you want to be super > safe, you can use 4 x K-ohm resistors, two just next to the neon body and > the other two at the other end of the wires. I use heat shrink over the > resistor connections in both cases. Very cheap and effective but not UL > or CSA approved. > > Pharma Phil > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > From: Nick Andrews <nickjandr...@gmail.com> > Date: January 15, 2021 at 12:20 PM > > Sweet! I've been thinking of looking for a lighted switch in the 'on' > position for the attic lights we installed to maybe remind us to turn them > off. Been up there a bit lately, running cable. More cameras, power, commo. > New NVR has 10 cameras, I think have added about a dozen new duplex > outlets, and so far 17 runs of cat5 through the house. More to come. > > Yes, some thermostats had mercury bulbs in them, the bigger ones having > bigger bulbs. I grab those wherever I can find them, getting scarce now. > There were also contactors with a fairly significant amount in them, but > tricky to open for recovery. OLD ignitrons I think had a large amount in > them. Sure mercury can be toxic, but it kills me to see the ridiculously > idiotic overreactions to things like broken fluorescent bulbs in schools or > places. I know a guy who built a box device to try recovering the mercury > from old bulbs. It wasn't worth the hassle. A 4' flo bulb has what, about > 1/20 of a drop of mercury in it? I've broken hundreds of them, and 8' ones > too in my time. In high school we used them for lightsabers at the > university dump. > > I use mercury in my carburetor sync gauge for my bike. I know they make > some now with a little tungsten rod in them which are safer, and maybe I'll > buy one some day. But for now, I'll hoard my little stash... > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:15 AM martin martin < mcvei...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Greetings all, > > These are no longer available in the US as of 40+ years ago. I found one > in a box and had to put it back in to service! > They were sold as "silent switches". Small tube of mercury to make the > contact and the toggle switch has a large NE-2 for a nice looking night > light. > > > -- > 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/eab74d90-5a82-4b95-ac32-7d461e176485n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/eab74d90-5a82-4b95-ac32-7d461e176485n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > > -- > 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/CAJD4P-jHyrUMFQ3a1Mga9EcnLVJJmGZR8TATu0hqacdxBy7vfA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAJD4P-jHyrUMFQ3a1Mga9EcnLVJJmGZR8TATu0hqacdxBy7vfA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > > > > -- > 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/1046531948.7224121.1610758352346.JavaMail.open-xchange%40mtlgui09 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/1046531948.7224121.1610758352346.JavaMail.open-xchange%40mtlgui09?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAJD4P-ggLZWdk5J2okHcXLnfNHBwYmsYqsAFzG4tO7u8-Acbvw%40mail.gmail.com.
