Hi, That's good to know - thank you!
I am planning some custom-made PCBs with freestanding nixie pins to mount them. I'll have a look when they arrive and check my KiCAD footprints are right. I'm also planning to bottom-light them with three 5mm WS2812B-alike 'smart' LEDs per tube. David On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 at 17:01, gregebert <[email protected]> wrote: > I have 14 IN-18 tubes running in my clock for a few years now, with no > failures. *They are a good quality tube*. > > Be careful when socketing them, because the pin material is a soft metal > that bends easily. > The light surface corrosion on the pins is harmless, and I dont recommend > trying to clean it off. > The one exception I've see is an IN-18 manufactured in 1977 that has stiff > corrosion-resistant pins. > I've never observed any glowing bondwires, or blue dots. > > Keep an eye out for cathode poisoning, because it has happened to me on a > few tubes, BUT it has always been 100% recoverable at nominal current. > > The cathode poisoning is entirely my fault because the month and year > display tubes are basically static. Even though I run a nightly depoisoning > sequence for 1 hour, some tubes slowly got poisoned anyways. All I did was > swap sockets, and after a few days the problem was gone. > > > -- > 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/93c54f1c-6898-4bf5-90eb-4d3b96e5e866%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/93c54f1c-6898-4bf5-90eb-4d3b96e5e866%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/CAOQ6x0HRgR7wkKGf-oROKkCN6d8rphr-RyAHPDtnxs0A3NjRTA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
