Well, alas, most of that is now Rubidium (Kr85 half life is about 10.5 yrs), so you'll need to give those tubes a little extra push now... :)
Cheers, Nick On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 7:48 AM jb-electronics <[email protected]> wrote: > PS: Make that "Krypton 85" > > On 2023-10-11 10:48 a.m., jb-electronics wrote: > > Interesting indeed! Could be, especially given the fact that some > Burroughts tubes have Radon 85 in them to help them ionize in the dark. > Seems to be the same idea? Jens > > On 2023-10-09 9:43 p.m., [email protected] wrote: > > To: > [email protected], Rob B <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> > > > On 2023-10-09 11:22, Rob B wrote: > > When I was a kid [~50 yrs ago], I had several power strips with NE-2 > indicators, where the indicator starting flicker and then eventually > failed. I noticed that when sunlight hit the NE-2s, they lit more solidly: > flickering converted to solid, and off converted to flickering. I always > assumed it was the energy from the sun's photons that was adding just > enough joules to the equation to push failing bulbs back over their > ionization threshold. Same effect, probably? > > > which is the reason behind some neon stuff having a small amount of > radioactivity added. helps kick off the Ionization. > > -- > -- > 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/5484e6672e77c0ae0151fe985d09766b%40zeusprune.ca > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/5484e6672e77c0ae0151fe985d09766b%40zeusprune.ca?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/61e797ac-848b-f8f6-3ce3-1acef36c105a%40jb-electronics.de > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/61e797ac-848b-f8f6-3ce3-1acef36c105a%40jb-electronics.de?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/8a611162-4942-a424-6923-3e989798da12%40jb-electronics.de > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/8a611162-4942-a424-6923-3e989798da12%40jb-electronics.de?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/CAOX%2BRHJWxvGwWRfa%2BZ8FpJa0Oitnb49vqV-KbFccDYnBT-2NeQ%40mail.gmail.com.
