Heh, I think most of the posts on how to do it were written by me.
I’ve repaired at least 20 tubes. I’ve only busted one. Michail Wilson 206-920-6312 From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Richard Scales Sent: Friday, May 15, 2020 8:33 PM To: neonixie-l <[email protected]> Subject: [neonixie-l] Re: Is it possible to identify a single nixie? 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]<mailto:[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<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/59ef7012-8cdf-42a2-bb05-982405df3ed0%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/MW2PR0102MB3435FAED15689A35984A9CF082BA0%40MW2PR0102MB3435.prod.exchangelabs.com.
