Re: [neonixie-l] New Nixie watch video

2012-10-21 Thread Alan Tan
Nice watch. What's it's size physically? In mm? On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Instrument Resources of America < iracosa...@hughes.net> wrote: > If I ever did that to my g.f. I'd have to sleep on my stomach for the rest > of my life. Ira. > > > > On 10/20/2012 7:35 PM, Charles MacDonald wrot

[neonixie-l] Re: More Dekatron Foolery

2012-10-21 Thread Dekatron42
You'll of course have to be careful when doing something that a dekatron is not designed for, as Jon says there is always the risk of wrecking it by destroying the electrodes or accidentally creating a conductive path between electrodes you don't want a path between. Always put a current limit

[neonixie-l] Re: More Dekatron Foolery

2012-10-21 Thread Jon
Martin's 'anode trick' is indeed a neat one. I've always shied away from reversing the polarity when playing with dekatrons because I read somewhere vaguely authoritative that it rapidly destroys the quality of the cathode surfaces. However that's probably not an instantaneous event, and anyway