So I've been working on making my own nixies, main dream is to produce a tube using uranium glass tubing in place of your regular boro or soda lime glass. In sourcing fill gases(not a huge quantity of suppliers who sell in small quantities to non-commercial) i keep coming across a mix called "K4" which is 75% neon 25% argon. My question is would the much higher percentage of argon make the breakdown voltage too high? I found a couple of Ne-Ar voltage to concentration graphs but the highest Ar % that they show is 5%, but it looks as though the curve trends upwards with higher %. My main draw to the K4 is it would remove the need for separate Ne and Ar valves and inlets. My gut tells me that it won't work well but I figured I'd chuck the question to the experts(you guys).
Erik Here is a link to the graph I mentioned http://www.lamptech.co.uk/Documents/SO%20Gas.htm -- 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/2b40a2c0-8329-4d6f-9c89-93aeba4e0f61n%40googlegroups.com.
