I had only one tube that had shorted segments: 4 & 5. I was able to fix them last fall with the banging method but due to having played with the tube over the last 40 years, there were other issues with it. Plus, after banging it to remove the short, I noted that segment 2 is now flaky and not always lighting up. I have debated putting it up on eBay as it still glows, I do not use it and it would be a less expensive way for someone to have a B-7971 to play with that is not fully functional with segments 2, 4 and 5 essentially being non-functional. I would then buy myself an IN-18 to play with.
Robert On Friday, May 15, 2020 at 11:33:07 PM UTC-4, Richard Scales wrote: > > 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/f341e7fe-7fed-4e24-92b5-65b9a4d9fc0b%40googlegroups.com.
