Paul is right... I have a bunch of these tubes new and two calculators made with them both Japanese. One runs on C cell batteries and the other on regular AC. Both use the exact same tubes. They are NEON!
Bill On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 12:00:03 PM UTC-7, Paul Andrews wrote: > > I knew I had one somewhere. Elfin MG17G. I don’t think I have ever lit > this up. > > On May 20, 2020, at 2:56 PM, Paul Andrews <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > :thumbsup: > > On Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 11:46:14 AM UTC-4, seaforth23 wrote: >> >> >> >> On Saturday, 16 May 2020 10:45:15 UTC+1, Mattelec wrote: >>> >>> After a quick search of nixie tubes in eBay, found an add of a japanese >>> calculator which appear to use orange VFD tubes. >>> No colour film is over the tubes, so those are quite interesting, maybe >>> some type of filament tubes? Have you ever seen something similar? >>> >>> Might be some kind of nixie tubes >>> >>> I still think they are the type in my attached pic. The lit version is >>> running at 100V via a 100K resistor. They are often found in old >>> calculators. This one is an Elfin MG-17C. >>> >>> <https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/0voAAOSw4Yteurlv/s-l1600.jpg> >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/neonixie-l/acmPPR5gxdY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ac68b459-a3e3-47a2-864e-fa4c7e75564d%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/ac68b459-a3e3-47a2-864e-fa4c7e75564d%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/6948c46f-bd18-4469-840f-6e3f97e90953o%40googlegroups.com.
