Bill, excellent observation! I almost didn't recognize my own post from 2011, thanks for digging that up!))
I'm curious if that INS-1 you reported about, which went stable, will stay stable long-term. Please do report. Best regards, Gene > On Mar 28, 2016, at 1:14 AM, TheJBW <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is an ancient topic, I know, but I wanted to chime in. Back in late > December, I built a clock which uses an INS-1 as an AM/PM indicator (so on > 12hr / day). With the correct polarity, the lamp was 100% fine for the first > two weeks or so, and then began to exhibit the flickering phenomenon > described here. It was a mild annoyance, but I didn't have time to address > it, as it was soldered in place and enclosed behind acrylic. Having forgotten > about it entirely for a few months, I was looking at it last week, and > noticed that it doesn't flicker anymore. I've been keeping an eye on it > since, and have seen no hint whatsoever of flicker. So it seems, at least for > a tiny sample size, that this self oscillation / flicker may simply go away > after a 'burn-in' period. > > -Bill > >> On Saturday, February 12, 2011 at 5:27:01 PM UTC-8, Gene Segal wrote: >> I have observed the following behavior of ИНС-1: >> With proper polarity connection, and rated current/voltage applied per spec >> sheet, SOME of the lamps exhibit unstable behavior, where they start >> pulsating sporadically. Others do not show this behavior. I would not call >> it a flicker (if flicker is defined as sporadic on/off condition), but a >> periodic pulsation, a kind of internal thermodynamic feedback loop, once set >> into pulsate mode, will tend to stay in that mode. In that sense, it is >> stable, but in the sense that it happens sporadically (probably a function >> of ambient temperature or light), it is unstable. >> >> Gene >> > > -- > 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 email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/1083afa8-af9b-4a44-a4b2-22080f56b52e%40googlegroups.com. > 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/03FCF1A0-F7A7-433E-9ED6-4B6F02DA0E84%40earthlink.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
