To follow up, I found a plasma globe and held the tubes up to it. I was able get the pins to partially light by touching the glass to the plasma globe, and my finger to one of the pins. But it doesn't light up the tube like a ZM1040 I have on hand lights up (could it be partially outgassed?)
Still no luck getting it to light with a power supply though. I've varied through voltages from 170V to 230V. Anyone have any suggestions? On Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 7:59:48 AM UTC-4, alex nolan wrote: > > I got this from Jan, in fact. > > I'll get a neon testing wand (or a plasma globe) and test if they are > outgassed. > > Jan mentioned they were poisoned, so I was operating on that assumption, > but if they are indeed outgassed that will be quite unfortunate. > > On Friday, May 31, 2019 at 8:04:25 AM UTC-4, Nick wrote: >> >> A lot of ZM1350s are outgassed - they have a variable life. >> >> Out of the several 100 I have bought, probably 10% to 15% were completely >> dead. >> >> Jan (the main supplier) and I exchanged emails on this some years ago and >> he kindly replaced the dead ones that came from him - subsequently he >> tested all tubes before shipping with an amazing factory tester that he >> shows on his website. >> >> Your one may indeed be outgassed and completely dead. >> >> If you have a neon testing wand, that would show if there was a >> possibility of recovery. >> >> Cheers >> >> 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/6d176833-06d3-483e-8bc4-db8d2f06f67c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
