Ever notice that if you key up a HF radio handheld with the antenna next to a mercury doped nixie that you get a baby blue haze? Very cool looking.
Jonathan David Forbes <[email protected]> wrote: >That purple glow or haze is a result of the mercury that is put in Nixie >tubes to make them live longer. It is normal. > > >On 8/11/14 10:46 PM, Dman777 wrote: >> No blue dot...this is a very small blue glow similar to a bottom of a >> flame.... it outlines the nixie wire that glows orange. It's only on the >> tubes that are effected from the strobe issue I mentioned earlier. >> >> On Monday, August 11, 2014 6:33:39 PM UTC-5, Dman777 wrote: >>> >>> My In-12 Nixie clock which has a strange strobe effect on 3 of the tubes >>> from https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/neonixie-l/YcmrKD52IXg are >>> starting to emit a small blue glow color from those tubes...is that a >>> typical sign that they are starting to go bad? >>> >>> >>> >> > > >-- >David Forbes, Tucson AZ > >-- >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/53E9AC61.6070406%40dakotacom.net. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/hc4pvmtorh8yvbynj0ckfjiv.1407855783263%40email.android.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
