Hi, Found this online seller. ~~~~~> http://www.ciel-electronique.com/electronique/en/LD8051/Afficheur/Electronics-tubes/LD8051_Nixie-tube.html
Have no idea on cost.... Kerry On Feb 6, 3:37 am, morrisodell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have to repair my old faithful VFD clock which has given faithful > service for over 30 years! Its a cute little ball shaped Japanese > unit, which uses four LD8051 VFD tubes. The symptom is that two of the > digits have become very bright and the other two are very dim. The > cause? Each tube has two paralleled filaments and the 4 tubes' > filament leads are connected in series. Two of the tubes have lost a > half-filament, thus leading to two bright and two dull digits. I'll > leave the answer as to which are bright, which are dark and why as an > exercise for the readers :-) > > NEC LD8051 VFD tubes are, to put it mildly, hard to find. Russian IV-3 > tubes are available on the auction site. So my question is, how > similar are they and what are the ratings and base pinouts ? That info > is hard to find as well. > > Anyone have a data sheet? > > Morris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/neonixie-l?hl=en-GB.
