I may have to get one or two. I have seen some Chinese boards that use them as VU meters. Very interesting to watch and I love the shade of green they produce.
The "Magic Eye" tubes are some of my earliest memories of electronics. My parents ancient Fisher stereo uses a very rare 6GE12 tube (the receiver still works though the tube has faded with age). My grandparents had an old Dumont TV that used a 6AL7 for the built-in AM/FM tuner and I still have one of my grandfathers NOS spares. I also have a NOS 6E5 that I bought back in the late 1970's that I wanted to do something with but never did. I always thought it would have been very cool if the 6E5 could have the entire indicator disc swept from light to dark rather than just the "wedge". It would have made an incredible seconds display for a clock.Slowly going from dark to light over a period of sixty seconds, like a second hand sweeping around, and then resetting to dark. I suppose have the "wedge" close and open once a second might make an interesting display too. On Monday, October 14, 2019 at 9:39:22 PM UTC-4, martin martin wrote: > > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/6E1P-EM80-6BR5-Magic-eye-Vintage-USSR-tube-NOS/111981191950?_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D57921%26meid%3Da0239843364746c6b1a439f25fb30a42%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D11%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dpf%26sd%3D123727599571%26itm%3D111981191950%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 > > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/6d2fa0d6-3e73-4d84-a723-4ebb081897c5%40googlegroups.com.
