My first nixie clock is built from tubes manufactured in 1963 (Burroughs 5092, my favorite). They were salvaged from a surplus RF generator I bought in 1975 (sorry, no pics but it looked & sounded awesome when powered-up), then sat in my open-air junkbox until 2011. Judging by the small amount of dust inside the RF generator, it couldn't have been powered-on for more than a few hundred hours, so these tubes are basically NOS. The clock has been in-service 24/7 almost 5 years now, with no hint of degradation. Of all my nixie tubes, this group of 6 is the only set for which I have solid historical info.
I've built 7 other clocks since then, with all sorts of tubes purchased on Ebay, and only 1 tube out of 55 has failed. -- 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/170e391b-eb1c-49ae-b1e1-a1dba7462cd7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
