> The real danger, here, is that these tubes - like many of the low> voltage > trigger tubes - will not work very much longer as the radiation> sources > decay and raises the trigger threshold.
I wonder if these could be resurrected by attaching a radiation source to the envelope. I'd guess that the envelope would probably block alphas, so no point in taping an Am241 source from a smoke detector to the envelope, but possibly a small, exempt size beta source of Sr90 might get one back in action? Greater health risk from the B+ on the tube than from such a tiny radiation source. -- Matthew Smith Business: http://www.smiffytech.com Blog: http://www.smiffysplace.com Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/smiffy Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/msmiffy Twitter: http://twitter.com/smiffy ABN 16 391 203 815 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/9656ebb2-e064-4963-8bdb-cb8a4d597ece%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
