>From my Radio Shack education back in the early 1970's..NE-2 bulbs
required 220K when running off 120VAC line and used 1/25 watt. NE-2H
(high-brightness) used a 22K resistor and used 1/4 watt.
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There are many types/models of NE-2 neons, look at the table at the end of
the book "Using and Understanding Small Neon Lamps" by William G Miller,
might be in the files section on teh forum or can be downloaded from the
internet, the list contains recommended resistor values for 115 VAC - the
Phil, sorry I'm getting back at this but I think you're seriously
overdriving these NE-2 bulbs.
Even the high brightness versions need a 33K resistor.
Regular NE-2 bulbs (which you most likely use as well) require around 150K
I'm running standard brightness bulbs in my wall switches on 230V and
sorry I wire the neon lamp across the two terminals on the switch ( only works with one-way switches )
Pharma Phil
-- Original Message --
From: Yohan Park
Date: January 16, 2021 at 10:31 AM
The live and neutral terminals that go to the light?
There
Presumably also allows a small amount of current to leak to the light when
the switch is off.
Largely irrelevant to incandescents but might well be enough to make led
lamps glow slightly
David
On Sat, 16 Jan 2021, 15:31 Yohan Park, wrote:
> The live and neutral terminals that go to the
The live and neutral terminals that go to the light?
There is no neutral in a switch, there's only a live wire and a switch wire.
If you're connecting the neon to these wires you're using the switch wire
that goes to the lamp as your neutral.
That also explains why the neon turns off as soon as
