On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 12:08:12 AM UTC-6, Forfanatic Tsai wrote: > > Hi, sorry this might sound like a noob question..... > > Will you relocate tubes on a clock? like switch second tubes with hour > tubes for balancing life time. Or just left them there until they fails? > > I own one Spectrum 18 from PV electronics now and IN-18 price is flying > high now :( (sure I won't care this if it's a set of cheap IN-12s lol) >
When you really think about it moving them around not only risks breaking them but can cause multiple tubes to have uneven wear vs just a couple. The 10s hour spot only does 0, 1, and maybe 2 so you end up with the most time on those digits. Move that tube to the seconds where it gets equal time on each and you still have more time on those first digits but after a while they'll start to look dimmer than the larger numbers. Not sure how many examples of worn out IN-18s there are on the forums here. Probably WAY more gas seal breaks than worn out mercury spiked nixies. -- 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/755ecb56-c6a6-4287-8d4d-27f456f49cb6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
