Paul, that's a great note...although if I broke 750 of them at one go, I'd be more pissed at that than a little bit of Krypton85 in the air.... LOL.
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 7:54 AM Paul Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a note about the safe handling and storage of tubes containing > Krypton 85 at the end of this page > https://www.nixies.us/bwg_gallery/122p224/ > > On Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 10:54:42 AM UTC-4 Nicholas Stock wrote: > >> 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]> >>> >>> >>> 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/49851ed4-64f7-4ae5-a376-4a91aac1c515n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/49851ed4-64f7-4ae5-a376-4a91aac1c515n%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/CAOX%2BRHKNZOcwFD1sR3_ZmRy2kKeOd_9kQsRhZfeTWY0HC0Kkhw%40mail.gmail.com.
