Well, I couldn't keep myself away from the Polyatron so I made a quick tweak of the pulse voltages as well as the screen/grid voltage, and voila it started to run somewhat better - now I have to go and take care of what I really should have done, household chores.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZQVZ4pPC4U /Martin On Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:20:00 UTC+2, Dekatron42 wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just uploaded a very short movie showing my first tries at running an > early prototype of the A-201 Polyatron, and it shines a clear blue, just as > the Russians have said all along. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUjeha4Tmeo > > Unfortunately I have not tinkered too much with it so the driving > conditions are not optimal, that's the reason for the short movie. I will > spend some more time with it in the future to see if I can adjust the > driving stage so it will run properly at higher speeds. Right now it looks > like it is a simple adjustment of the screen/grid voltage. > > I've included a few photos here that show it from a few different angles. > > /Martin > -- 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/f471cb17-7291-4ca3-96ca-f09f9b64a393%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
