Nope, that's what it looked like when sold on eBay - I replaced that Nixie. It still works and shines purple instead of orange. It looks like the pip at the top of that Nixie hasn't been sealed off properly as there is a tiny white line in the center of it which could explain the different colour, some air might have leaked into the Nixie changing the gas mixture.
/Martin On Sunday, 2 February 2014 04:17:06 UTC+1, Jens Boos wrote: > Hey Martin, > > did you repair the leftmost Nixie tube with an Argon mixture? Impressive! > > Jens > > Am 02.02.2014 03:38, schrieb Dekatron42: > > Hi, > > > > I found this clock on eBay some time ago, it was non-functioning when > > sold and unfortunately it arrived in an even worse state since it had > > been crushed while being shipped. It turned out to be some easy and > > some hard things to repair to get it up and running, one Nixie was > > broken and a few resistors where badly burned and one resistor had > > cracked! After replacing those it took some time re-adjusting the > > motor driven rotary switches, they look more like prototypes than > > anything that was sold commercially, especially the disks that spin as > > those are just rounded pieces of epoxy circuit boards with some > > soldered contacts, no nice finish at all. > > > > I've put a short film on YouTube: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GsczXtQKLE where it advances from > > 12:59 to 1:00, and some photos and documents are included here in this > > message. I just wish this clock had been a 24 hour model and not a 12 > > hour model! > > > > Just as it says in the article it a lot of noise and you can't use it > > in your bedroom without ear plugs! > > > > /Martin > > -- > > 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 neonixie-l+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send an email to > > neoni...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > To view this discussion on the web, visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/f4aeec59-bcb7-4422-86b3-f9e0ed273267%40googlegroups.com. > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6c038e6b-ff80-4d02-93de-5c1e7191ce55%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
