[neonixie-l] Re: Something a little different

2017-06-29 Thread MichaelB
VERY pretty, I love these old fans. There are so many poor reproductions out there now, Thanks for sharing this original with the group. On Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 2:53:16 PM UTC-7, Paul Andrews wrote: > > While wandering flea markets looking for nixies, or things I can put > nixies in, or th

Re: [neonixie-l] ILVM1-1/7 Type I VFD tubes

2017-06-29 Thread Manuel Azevedo
Thank you Terry, I know understand why this odd tube behaviour. Excellent articles btw! From: on behalf of Terry Kennedy Reply-To: "neonixie-l@googlegroups.com" Date: Friday, 30 June 2017 at 04:11 To: neonixie-l Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] ILVM1-1/7 Type I VFD tubes On Thursday, June 29, 201

Re: [neonixie-l] Something a little different

2017-06-29 Thread Paul Andrews
110V. > On Jun 30, 2017, at 12:36 AM, JohnK wrote: > > And what mains voltage was it originally intended for? > > John K > - Original Message - > From: Paul Andrews > To: neonixie-l > Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 7:23 AM > Subject: [neonixie-l] Something a little different > > While wa

Re: [neonixie-l] Something a little different

2017-06-29 Thread JohnK
And what mains voltage was it originally intended for? John K - Original Message - From: Paul Andrews To: neonixie-l Sent: Friday, June 30, 2017 7:23 AM Subject: [neonixie-l] Something a little different While wandering flea markets looking for nixies, or things I can put

Re: [neonixie-l] Something a little different

2017-06-29 Thread Dan Harboe Burer
That’s what I call a find! It’s beautiful! Dan From: Paul Andrews Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 11:53 PM To: neonixie-l Subject: [neonixie-l] Something a little different While wandering flea markets looking for nixies, or things I can put nixies in, or things I can take apart to use in a cl

Re: [neonixie-l] ILVM1-1/7 Type I VFD tubes

2017-06-29 Thread Terry Kennedy
On Thursday, June 29, 2017 at 2:43:03 PM UTC-4, kosbo.com wrote: > > Is far as I remember, combined segments are used to simplify circuit to > make seven segment style digits on the clock matrix look like display. > > I know that IV-26 ( just bigger than IV-25) has 3 modification types: > t

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Dolam LC-7

2017-06-29 Thread jb-electronics
I struggle a lot with this too, and I am not really happy with the vast majority of the pictures on my website. Jonathan seems to have found a good way. Perhaps it is also possible to enhance the quality by some light post-production. Jens On 6/29/2017 4:41 PM, Paul Andrews wrote: One observa

[neonixie-l] Re: Dolam LC-7

2017-06-29 Thread Paul Andrews
One observation: The LC-7 looks like it doesn't have mercury. Taking photos of Nixie tubes can be a trial. Experimentation and taking lots of photos is the key. If you can't manually control the exposure, you can achieve a similar effect by varying the lighting. Try lighting the back ground. Tr

[neonixie-l] Something a little different

2017-06-29 Thread Paul Andrews
While wandering flea markets looking for nixies, or things I can put nixies in, or things I can take apart to use in a clock, I came across an actual bona fide bargain for something completely different that I had always wanted. A vintage fan! I thought some of you might be interested (I know at

[neonixie-l] Re: Dolam LC-7

2017-06-29 Thread Tomasz Kowalczyk
> > > *if you have any tips how to photograph nixies without using manual white > balance, I'd like to read them - I can't choose non-automatic white balance > and it is > > > ...very problematic when taking photos of something emiting light. I knew I should've read this post once more bef

[neonixie-l] Dolam LC-7

2017-06-29 Thread Tomasz Kowalczyk
Hi, I've recently purchased interesting tubes: 5 unused LC-7 tubes made by Dolam. While they don't look spectacular, they are extremely rare. Googling in English and Polish leads to only two places over the internet where these tubes are mentioned. This thread on Polish forum: http://www.trio

[neonixie-l] Re: ILVM1-1/7 Type I VFD tubes

2017-06-29 Thread Roddy Scott
You could mount 7 together behind a smoked acrylic sheet and have a random image generator driven display module. Just a thought. -- 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, s