The most important thing to do is limit the current to the correct range, regardless of whatever value you have for the anode supply or resistor. I hope you can find a few more of these rare gems.
On Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 8:26:13 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote: > Electrophoresis supplies are pretty handy. > I got a smallish one by Shandon that limits at up to 400V and 100mA. It > worked a treat to fix a nixie I had with cathode poisoning. > > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 4:04 PM Bill Notfaded <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's Paul Andrews I was referring to... I'm not at home right now but the >> power supply is the one that stands vertical and you can turn the voltage >> up into hundreds of volts with knobs... it's dark red. I bought two of >> them. They were for Electrophoresis. >> >> Bill >> On Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 7:53:23 AM UTC-7 Bill Notfaded wrote: >> >>> I loved that movie btw "Bite The Bullet" with Gene Hackman >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Hackman>, Candice Bergen >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Bergen>, and James Coburn >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Coburn>. I finally broke down >>> and bought one tube I've never had before an NL-7094. I've collected some >>> NL-8091's but the bigger brother I've never had before. The datasheet >>> recommended operating conditions says to use a 9.1K resistor with 200VDC. >>> It's ionizing voltage is the regular 170VDC. I was going to use my power >>> supply like Paul has that can generate any voltage I want to turn it up >>> slowly. Should I just use say maybe a 10k anode resistor to start out with >>> it? I was thinking turn up the voltage slowly with a the resistor on the >>> anode and see where the cathodes energize and lite up at? I want to be >>> really careful with this tube. I'm getting it with the original National >>> Electronics box with the big RED READOUT circle in the middle even! So >>> excited. >>> >>> Bill >>> >> -- >> 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/9d1c392e-0e23-48d6-ac32-eff6fb67cff0n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/9d1c392e-0e23-48d6-ac32-eff6fb67cff0n%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/1f3249e7-1b69-46be-b5c7-ed70fec27fa0n%40googlegroups.com.
