These would be interesting to see...
On Friday, 17 July 2020 09:25:10 UTC+1, Terry Kennedy wrote:
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> I have some large Soviet VFD panels which are allegedly intended for a
> submarine - parts of the display look like ballast tanks. But they could
> also be separator drums from a later RBMK
On Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 12:27:32 PM UTC-4, Bill Notfaded wrote:
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> I'll post some pics when I get home if I remember...
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I have some large Soviet VFD panels which are allegedly intended for a
submarine - parts of the display look like ballast tanks. But they could
also be separator dru
I'll post some pics when I get home if I remember...
On Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 9:26:20 AM UTC-7, Bill Notfaded wrote:
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> Paul is right... I have a bunch of these tubes new and two calculators
> made with them both Japanese. One runs on C cell batteries and the other
> on regular AC. Both
Paul is right... I have a bunch of these tubes new and two calculators made
with them both Japanese. One runs on C cell batteries and the other on
regular AC. Both use the exact same tubes. They are NEON!
Bill
On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 12:00:03 PM UTC-7, Paul Andrews wrote:
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> I knew I
On Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 5:45:15 PM UTC+8, Mattelec wrote:
> After a quick search of nixie tubes in eBay, found an add of a japanese
> calculator which appear to use orange VFD tubes.
> No colour film is over the tubes, so those are quite interesting, maybe some
> type of filament tubes? Have
:thumbsup:
On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 11:46:14 AM UTC-4, seaforth23 wrote:
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> On Saturday, 16 May 2020 10:45:15 UTC+1, Mattelec wrote:
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>> After a quick search of nixie tubes in eBay, found an add of a japanese
>> calculator which appear to use orange VFD tubes.
>> No colour film is ove
If you load the image at full resolution, you can easily see that each
segment is a piece of wire bent into a sort of loop, that sits inside a
slot. It's a neon device. The info that it takes a lot of voltage and low
current makes sense to me.
Neat display, I had not seen them before.
--
You
On Saturday, 16 May 2020 10:45:15 UTC+1, Mattelec wrote:
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> After a quick search of nixie tubes in eBay, found an add of a japanese
> calculator which appear to use orange VFD tubes.
> No colour film is over the tubes, so those are quite interesting, maybe
> some type of filament tubes? Have y
On Saturday, 16 May 2020 10:45:15 UTC+1, Mattelec wrote:
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> After a quick search of nixie tubes in eBay, found an add of a japanese
> calculator which appear to use orange VFD tubes.
> No colour film is over the tubes, so those are quite interesting, maybe
> some type of filament tubes? Have y
