There is a note about the safe handling and storage of tubes containing Krypton 85 at the end of this page https://www.nixies.us/bwg_gallery/122p224/
On Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 10:54:42 AM UTC-4 Nicholas Stock wrote: > Well, alas, most of that is now Rubidium (Kr85 half life is about 10.5 > yrs), so you'll need to give those tubes a little extra push now... :) > > Cheers, > > Nick > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 7:48 AM jb-electronics <webm...@jb-electronics.de> > wrote: > >> PS: Make that "Krypton 85" >> >> On 2023-10-11 10:48 a.m., jb-electronics wrote: >> >> Interesting indeed! Could be, especially given the fact that some >> Burroughts tubes have Radon 85 in them to help them ionize in the dark. >> Seems to be the same idea? Jens >> >> On 2023-10-09 9:43 p.m., cm...@zeusprune.ca wrote: >> >> To: >> neoni...@googlegroups.com, Rob B <bailey...@gmail.com> >> >> >> On 2023-10-09 11:22, Rob B wrote: >> >> When I was a kid [~50 yrs ago], I had several power strips with NE-2 >> indicators, where the indicator starting flicker and then eventually >> failed. I noticed that when sunlight hit the NE-2s, they lit more solidly: >> flickering converted to solid, and off converted to flickering. I always >> assumed it was the energy from the sun's photons that was adding just >> enough joules to the equation to push failing bulbs back over their >> ionization threshold. Same effect, probably? >> >> >> which is the reason behind some neon stuff having a small amount of >> radioactivity added. helps kick off the Ionization. >> >> -- >> -- >> 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/5484e6672e77c0ae0151fe985d09766b%40zeusprune.ca >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/5484e6672e77c0ae0151fe985d09766b%40zeusprune.ca?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+...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/61e797ac-848b-f8f6-3ce3-1acef36c105a%40jb-electronics.de >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/61e797ac-848b-f8f6-3ce3-1acef36c105a%40jb-electronics.de?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+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/8a611162-4942-a424-6923-3e989798da12%40jb-electronics.de >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/8a611162-4942-a424-6923-3e989798da12%40jb-electronics.de?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/49851ed4-64f7-4ae5-a376-4a91aac1c515n%40googlegroups.com.
