Un retrieved from the bin, I've got about 8 of them in total that I'm not happy with. I will put them on soak, with a higher anode current and see what happens. I don't have a tazer lying around though! can't go to Tesco's and get one LOL Cheers, Paul
On Thursday, 3 April 2014 08:14:34 UTC+1, petehand wrote: > 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/67f7ce33-f34e-4b32-8368-022dcc040bd7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
