You should probably un-bin it and run it for a couple of days before doing anything so rash. I brought up a set of B6091s this week that had been sitting in a box for years. One of them worked. On the others, some cathodes wouldn't light, some struck at the pins but not the numeral, one wouldn't work at all - I finally got it to light just the '1' cathode by zapping the envelope with my wife's tazer. All of them flickered. I left them on overnight and 24 hours later, all work, all cathodes, no flicker.
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 2:56:43 AM UTC-7, Paul Parry wrote: > > > Many thanks for the advice, > > I raised the voltage to 180v and the tube seemed to behave more like I > would expect and at 190v was ok. However the other tubes in the multiplex > developed a hazy pink glow so I quickly turned the voltage back down. I can > only conclude that the tube is on its last legs and I would never use > anything even remotely suspect so I've binned it. > I had another tube that for some reason the bottom half of the digit would > not light, is Neon lighter than air and just risen to the top of the tube? > > Cheers, > Paul > > -- 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/0ba3c9b4-e371-4807-af76-9d98bb710a03%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
