Exactly the same thing happened to me too Wayne....replacing a tube in my Nixichron and pop, off came the glass nipple on the base of the IN-18....the holes in the PCB aren't that forgiving...;-(. I threw the tube away a long time ago, but I have the odd one that could do with cathode regeneration, just haven't got around to it. Some nixies with different noble gas mixtures would be cool...Krypton/Argon mixes etc could give some great colours....
Nick On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Wayne de Geere III <[email protected]>wrote: > > OK, brain fart, you get the idea, though. the tube worked, I removed it > from a Nixichron in the course of a firmware upgrade, put it back in later > and the tube no longer worked. First time ever and frankly I'm happy it was > an IN-18 and not a Z568M or B7971 tube, it was a cheaper lesson learned. :) > > On 2011 Jun 07, at 15:48 , jb-electronics wrote: > > It cannot lose vacuum because it has never had vacuum ;-) > > Jens > > Am 08.06.2011 00:43, schrieb Wayne de Geere III: > > > I have one that no longer works, have no idea why, I may have lost vacuum > when I was pulling or re-inserting it into my clock after doing some work on > one of my clocks. > > On 2011 Jun 07, at 15:02 , Gene Segal wrote: > > Nixie Gang, > > Is there anybody interested in bringing their IN-18's back from the dead? > Specifically, those of you who have suffered broken "pupiks" (glass bibs or > pips between the pins). I am not an expert, but was thinking that those > could be refilled and sealed. If we get a decent number of these casualties > together, then perhaps it would be interesting to some expert neon glass guy > to refill them. So the question is - how many of these could we get > together in one location, in order to approach an expert. I can get us > started with about 20. > > Perhaps we could devise a voucher system, so that everyone sends their dead > guys to one person, then an estimate is obtained for the lot, and everybody > pitches in their share. These would be only for private use, since > longevity would probably suffer...but it might be worth it for some to pay > $20 per tube, for example, to have a backup. Thoughts? > > Gene > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > > > > -- > 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. > > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
