Raise the supply voltage to 180V, and see what happens.

On Saturday, March 29, 2014 8:02:43 AM UTC-7, Paul Parry wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Just assembling a clock, and I have an intermittent nixie tube ( Rodan 
> GR116's ) that flickers and will not stay on. However just touching the 
> tube with a finger makes it work so assume it is some strange capacitive 
> effect.
> I am not over driving the tube ( 170v ) and a 10K anode resistor - 
> altering these + / - 10% does not really improve things.
> I have several of these tubes, half work fine and other half all have this 
> strange effect of working when touched. I know all the tubes are 'ok' as 
> they came from a frequency counter that I powered up and saw them all 
> working before I carefully removed the tubes.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
>

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