Some years back when I did a lot of Tesla Coil stuff, one of the standard things to do was light a fluorescent tube just by holding it near the topload.
I kept a bunch of cheap Chinese nixies with the coils for public demos. If you search YouTube for "Cambridge Teslathon" you might find some videos that we did, along with some of our more extreme stuff with thermite :) Nick On 2 September 2016 16:02:10 BST, Nicholas Stock <nickst...@gmail.com> wrote: >Nice, thanks for sharing... > >Turns out 300,000V *is not good for cathode poisoning*....who would >have >known? ;) > >Nick > >On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Tom Van Baak <t...@leapsecond.com> >wrote: > >> I ran across this IN-18 page by Chris Gerekos: >> http://www.hazardousphysics.com/main/in18clock/IN-18_Nixie_ >> Tube_Clock_1.html >> >> If you think adding a blue LED glow to a nixie tube is cool, >apparently >> this is how real men do it: >> http://www.hazardousphysics.com/misc/Nixie_tube_at_300000V.html >> >> /tvb >> >> -- >> 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >https://groups.google.com/d/ms >> gid/neonixie-l/41D4C4D59D5F4270AA73307510A8A332%40pc52. >> 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. >To view this discussion on the web, visit >https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/CAOX%2BRHJMMa1KT4BgTMmj7vOMg4j7-mq%3DSLy0WWPzD1b9-4T5Ww%40mail.gmail.com. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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 neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/E12EC0D7-FBD0-4946-A328-D76D4C6B7875%40desmith.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
