I found out the hard way that magic eye tubes dont last long. Back in the 70's I salvaged a 6E5 along with it's unusual socket which has a built-in resistor and saved for a later date when I found a datasheet and could hook it up for a future project. There it sat in a junkbox for about 40 years, until I rediscovered it and was eager to finally light it up. Filament is fine, yet no glow on the tube face. Such a disappointment.
I was planning to use it in the center of my alternate big clock which has green neon bulbs, like it's neon cousin pictured in my google icon that has traditional orange NE-2s for hands and an A101 dekatron spinning in the middle. Someday when the project backlog clears-up I'll take the 6E5 apart and make one of these. On Monday, August 29, 2022 at 1:24:45 PM UTC-7 M1 wrote: > I thought this was a good idea for those than can’t get eyes. > > > > > https://hackaday.com/2022/08/29/magic-eye-tubes-go-solid-state-with-this-plug-in-replacement/ > > > > > > Michail > > > -- 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/bb422732-761b-43f2-bd68-ef9873498fc4n%40googlegroups.com.
