Does anyone know if they're long life (mercury) type tubes? I'd hate to spend that kind of $$$ on them and have them sputter out when being used.
On Thursday, October 12, 2017 at 4:29:37 AM UTC-4, Nick wrote: > > On Thursday, 12 October 2017 09:14:30 UTC+4, SWISSNIXIE - Jonathan F. > wrote: >> >> I heard a story that they were used in weight stations for trucks. There >> is symbol tube in the same size made by rodan that can display "kg" and "t" >> which would make the story plausible. > > > True - the systems are called "weighbridges" - the digits were big so that > they could be read from the trucks. > > I also heard that they were in East Germany,,, > > Whatever anyone else thinks, I like them. Used to have quite a few, sold > most, now just one set of 6 left (not in a clock at the moment) > > Nick > -- 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/1c754996-ef4a-4042-8fd6-696091cb84d6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
