For what it's worth I successfully 'repaired' a B-7971 that had two segments shorted together following helpful advice on this forum. It process seems dramatic but if it means a valuable tube gets back in to service then you're up on the deal! Search on this forum for details but essentially it involved exerting forces on a tube that you would perhaps otherwise view as crazy - lots of banging it it about - though fortunately, in my situation, a couple of short taps on to a moderately soft surface did the trick and I was very pleased. YMMV Richard
On Friday, 15 May 2020 11:08:16 UTC+1, newxito wrote: > > Is it possible to identify a single nixie tube by some unique > characteristics? > Is it possible to detect a nixie tube change in the clock? > I ask because I would like to add some statistic functions to my nixie > clocks. The first thing I would like to add is the total “up-time” of the > clock and the total up-time of the nixies (different because of PIR and > software defined down times). It would be nice to do that for every single > nixie, but I think there is no easy way to do that. > I also want to add an up-time counter to my ZM1350 und B-7971 sockets. > Maybe my favorite nixie manufacturer could add a 30-cent microcontroller > to the base of his great tubes with the serial number, production date and > up-time counter :-) > > -- 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/59ef7012-8cdf-42a2-bb05-982405df3ed0%40googlegroups.com.
