Thanks Greg. The datasheet says peak max is 7.5mA, Avg. max 7mA, Avg. min 4mA.
Bill On Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 8:36:11 AM UTC-7 gregebert wrote: > The most important thing to do is limit the current to the correct range, > regardless of whatever value you have for the anode supply or resistor. I > hope you can find a few more of these rare gems. > > On Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 8:26:13 AM UTC-7 artg...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> Electrophoresis supplies are pretty handy. >> I got a smallish one by Shandon that limits at up to 400V and 100mA. It >> worked a treat to fix a nixie I had with cathode poisoning. >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 4:04 PM Bill Notfaded <notf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It's Paul Andrews I was referring to... I'm not at home right now but >>> the power supply is the one that stands vertical and you can turn the >>> voltage up into hundreds of volts with knobs... it's dark red. I bought >>> two of them. They were for Electrophoresis. >>> >>> Bill >>> On Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 7:53:23 AM UTC-7 Bill Notfaded wrote: >>> >>>> I loved that movie btw "Bite The Bullet" with Gene Hackman >>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Hackman>, Candice Bergen >>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Bergen>, and James Coburn >>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Coburn>. I finally broke down >>>> and bought one tube I've never had before an NL-7094. I've collected some >>>> NL-8091's but the bigger brother I've never had before. The datasheet >>>> recommended operating conditions says to use a 9.1K resistor with 200VDC. >>>> It's ionizing voltage is the regular 170VDC. I was going to use my power >>>> supply like Paul has that can generate any voltage I want to turn it up >>>> slowly. Should I just use say maybe a 10k anode resistor to start out >>>> with >>>> it? I was thinking turn up the voltage slowly with a the resistor on the >>>> anode and see where the cathodes energize and lite up at? I want to be >>>> really careful with this tube. I'm getting it with the original National >>>> Electronics box with the big RED READOUT circle in the middle even! So >>>> excited. >>>> >>>> Bill >>>> >>> -- >>> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/9d1c392e-0e23-48d6-ac32-eff6fb67cff0n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/9d1c392e-0e23-48d6-ac32-eff6fb67cff0n%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/6b219a1d-64c2-4e77-97eb-8b01d9ccde30n%40googlegroups.com.
