It's worth the time and effort to find NOS 5092 tubes one-by-one if necessary; they are very high quality. I dont know how old your kids are, but our son and daughter soldered their nixie clocks so they appreciate them more.
On Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 10:35:56 AM UTC-7 J Forbes wrote: > guess I should have bought more of these back in 2009....sorry.... > > [image: tubes.jpg] > > On Thursday, June 20, 2024 at 10:18:10 AM UTC-7 MikeDL wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Years back I designed and built a B-5092 based clock and it's been >> working great. I'd like to build a couple more clocks for the kids. Looking >> around for additional tubes it seems the 5092s have gotten much harder and >> more expensive and it looks tough to find two sets of six plus some backups. >> >> Are the ZM1022s drop-in replacements for the B-5092, or just really close? >> >> Any other similar size/shape tubes that people are finding success with? >> I can redesign my circuit board if it makes sense to switch to something >> like an IN-4 with a lot more backups :-), but that would be less desirable. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> > -- 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/a3b852b0-c298-40d5-aa31-13c570cd1d41n%40googlegroups.com.
