On Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 1:54:34 PM UTC-4, Dman777 wrote: > > Wow, this is good information...thanks! I can't find much info on these > tubes. Are they made brand new still or are they like Nixie tubes....old > stock never used? If I had that clock and I ran it 8 hours a day...how much > brightness would diminish percentage wise in a year would you say? >
They are new old stock. The newest datecodes I've seen are mid-90s. Type 1 tubes have individually-addressable dots. Type 2 are for forming digits on 12 (or 11) tubes mounted horizontally. Type 3 are for forming digits on 4 tubes mounted vertically. The only application I have ever seen these tubes used for are Elektronika 7 clocks from the Reflector factory in Saratov. It is odd, since Reflector made some VFD types, but all of the IV-26 I have seen were from the Orzep factory and shipped to Reflector for installation in clocks. A company still makes these clocks in Russia, but using LEDs. Since the IV-26 tubes have no grids, they can't be multiplexed. Dot "wear" seems to happen on the dots that are on the most. There is lots of information about the clocks that used these tubes on my blog: https://www.tmk.com/blog/?s=elektronika -- 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/ff500fdf-998e-4c1e-92f6-7bf11e56b7aa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
