Yes. That is a quick test to check that the horizontal is actually being
generated.
On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 10:19:14 PM UTC-5 charles wrote:
> On 2021-01-12 2:48 p.m., Paul Andrews wrote:
> > I have a whole bunch of Predictas. I'll try it but I doubt it will work
> > because of the larg
On 2021-01-12 2:48 p.m., Paul Andrews wrote:
I have a whole bunch of Predictas. I'll try it but I doubt it will work
because of the large gap between the CRT and the safety glass. Here are
the two I have restored:
you can get a neon lamp to glow at the Plate cap of the Horizontal
output tube,
For those of you not old enough to have had a black-and-white TV, you can
see they were not actually white, but a bluish tint.
Very well preserved/restored equipment.
Not likely that I will replace our 70-inch 4K Sony with one of these
On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 11:48:53 AM UTC-8 Paul Andre
Of course I dohopefully for only a short time. I have 4 of them, plus 3
monitors. All in the garage waiting for the big moving sale.
On Monday, January 11, 2021 at 3:33:28 PM UTC-7 gregebert wrote:
> Does anyone still have a functioning TV with a CRT in it ?
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I have one of this plasma glowing orbs
When I touch the glass with a Nixie they do glow nicely
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 14:33 gregebert wrote:
> Does anyone still have a functioning TV with a CRT in it ? I'll bet you
> can get nixies to glow by holding them in front of the glass, especially if
>
Does anyone still have a functioning TV with a CRT in it ? I'll bet you can
get nixies to glow by holding them in front of the glass, especially if you
are touching some pins.
There's enough charge in the HV area to give a mild zap when you touch the
screen, due to body capacitance.
So many thi
Ira and
The first round color crt was the 15AXP22 which came in the RCA CT-100. The
first 21" round crt was the 21AXP22 which was unique because, unlike its
predecessor it had a metal funnel/bell instead of a glass one. That metal
bell carried the 2nd anode voltage and could really carry a
The same was true about black and white crt's, all were round for quite
some time. IIRC the first 21" round color crt was a 21AXP22? Ira.
On 1/7/2021 2:40 PM, 'orange_glow_fan' via neonixie-l wrote:
When Color TV's first came on the market in the early 50's all of them
had round CRT's. The f
Ha ha ha, great story :)
Well, it's al about how we take today's technology for granted and don't
care if it breaks isn't it?
I have a couple of "out of date" phones lying around and wouldn't feel bad
if I blew them up some way. Just for fun.
But 30 years from now people probably will look at it
After watching that video, I feel more guilt about how I loved to throw
them into the local storm drain just so we could hear the BOOM ! The
addiction got so bad that I would sometimes ride my bike to the local TV
repair show, grab a tube from the dumpster, and ride home no-hands (yes,
can you
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Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2021 5:41 PM
To: neonixie-l
Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Fascinating film about 1960s colour CRT
manufacturing
When Color TV's first came on the market in the early 50's all of them had
round CRT's. The first ones were 15" CRT's. Around 1
When Color TV's first came on the market in the early 50's all of them had
round CRT's. The first ones were 15" CRT's. Around 1954 RCA introduced a
21" round CRT and they were the standard until around 1963 when the first
rectangular CRTS entered the market. I suspect this film was made during
Yes you're right.
At the end of the documentary at 19:15 you can see a man testing a TV with
a round tube.
On Thursday, January 7, 2021 at 10:19:16 PM UTC+1 Bill van Dijk wrote:
> I believe the round tubes were for the cheaper TVs.
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> *From:* neoni...@googlegroups.com [mailto:neon
I believe the round tubes were for the cheaper TVs.
From: neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Yohan Park
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2021 3:50 PM
To: neonixie-l
Subject: [neonixie-l] Re: Fascinating film about 1960s colour CRT manufacturing
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