Good to know. I will refrain from building any fancy clocks with them then!
On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 5:29 AM, MichaelS <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, I've had similar experience with these tubes. 'think they were sold > as standard life tubes in the brochures. The rounded face is a warning... > > 5092's are fine tubes though. > > On Friday, June 16, 2017 at 11:00:35 AM UTC-5, gregebert wrote: >> >> Be careful with 5031's.....I've bought a few in the past from different >> sources, and half of them had defects, most likely gas leaks. >> They did not respond to depoisoning attempts at high current. Oh, they >> got really warm. Someday I hope to melt one. Did that before with a 0A2 and >> it was hilarious as it shrivelled. >> I believe the 5031 is Burrough's 1st-generation nixie. >> >> I've bough many 5092's in various condition from different sources. Have >> never found a bad one, and have never had one fail on me. >> > -- > 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/3fa1828c-8f10-48d9-a239-73a7ab0f0096%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/3fa1828c-8f10-48d9-a239-73a7ab0f0096%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > 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/CAOX%2BRHK8kTk_KOpiiqjx5s3GQQPqVzdUrENFr-NRxg6xgX%3DN5A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
