If you can make a nixie tube, which does look cool by the way, I'm sure you can throw together a spotter from an old microwave tranny.
I have an old british federal spot welder controller, but it aint much use as it didnt come with the little number plugs you use to set the times. On 16 Oct, 20:21, "Tidak Ada" <[email protected]> wrote: > Bullshit, I did not remember you when I was at the Philips CRT plant, there > was a complete bobine of chrome-nickle steel wire of about the thickness you > used. Problem would be to weld it to the feed-trough wires. Soldering this > wire is not possible; it has to be spot welded. > In case you have interest, I can send you some photo's of things I met > there, to give an idea. So I have here a frame, that is used to align the > electrodes in a electron gun, that might give you an idea how to align the > figures in a nixie. The frame is also used to press the glass ceramic studs > that keep the electrodes in place in the tube. Also interesting photo's I > made of a glassblower's tourch and the several satellite burners to place on > top. Sadly I forgot to take a photo of the machine that does the work. I was > too busy for a TCA member in Australia who has interest in materials and > equipement for his experiments to make klystrons. > There where rows of micro spotwelders on long tables, but it was too much > work to remove them. I found one spotwelding head that was not mounted and a > transformer for 5 V 330 A. I could take it home. Unfortunately the welding > head is missing some parts, however, I think a can fix that. The price was > low enough to take the risk. The most imortant is to develop a driving > supply that doses the current and time. Powerelectronics are not really my > favorite field.... > > eric > > _____ > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of jb-electronics > Sent: dinsdag 16 oktober 2012 19:34 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Re: My first two-digit Nixie tube! > > Thanks! The tube does not have a high lifespan: I used ordinary Dumet wire > for the digits as well (convenience) and this sputters nicely; also, air is > not the most ideal gas for discharge tubes, although it does look very nice > (much nicer than I ever thought). > > I briefly thought about making some more of these (maybe 10) and build them > into a binary clock or something ;-) But driving them is not practical > because they do need 550V DC to strike. > > Jens > > Nice! > > So when are you ready to take orders? ;) > > /Martin > > On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 3:56:02 PM UTC+2, Jens Boos wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I did it: I have just built my first two-digit Nixie tube! I call her > "NX-LS-1". > > She contains the digits 0 and 1 as well as a zig-zag anode. Filling is > (as usual) air at 15mbar. I will have my needle valve shortly, then I > will be able to do some neon thingies. > > See some pictures here: > > http://www.jb-electronics.de/ > <http://www.jb-electronics.de/tmp/nx-ls-1_1.jpg> > tmp/nx-ls-1_1.jpghttp://www.jb-electronics.de/ > <http://www.jb-electronics.de/tmp/nx-ls-1_2.jpg> tmp/nx-ls-1_2.jpg > > The digits glow in a nice purple, but my camera has a hard time to grasp > the color. The truth is somewhat in between the very purple and very > blue color in the following pictures: > > http://www.jb-electronics.de/ > <http://www.jb-electronics.de/tmp/nx-ls-1_3.jpg> > tmp/nx-ls-1_3.jpghttp://www.jb-electronics.de/ > <http://www.jb-electronics.de/tmp/nx-ls-1_4.jpg> > tmp/nx-ls-1_4.jpghttp://www.jb-electronics.de/ > <http://www.jb-electronics.de/tmp/nx-ls-1_5.jpg> > tmp/nx-ls-1_5.jpghttp://www.jb-electronics.de/ > <http://www.jb-electronics.de/tmp/nx-ls-1_6.jpg> > tmp/nx-ls-1_6.jpghttp://www.jb-electronics.de/ > <http://www.jb-electronics.de/tmp/nx-ls-1_7.jpg> tmp/nx-ls-1_7.jpg > > Jens > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web, > visithttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/neonixie-l/-/4z6dIHzu0JAJ. > For more options, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > 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, visithttps://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
