I'd be concerned about the tube lifetime. B-7971's are among the most robust Nixie tubes I've ever seen, with some hitting 60,000+ hours, just in the clocks I built. And they were used pulls from stock ticker systems (there are no real "New Old Stock" 7971's, no matter what anybody says.
Even Dalibor had a run of bad tubes (all replaced under warranty at no cost) after he had perfected his process. On Sunday, December 29, 2024 at 1:34:51 AM UTC-5 Richard Scales wrote: > Hello, > I am in discussion with a tube manufacturer regarding the implementation > of a B-8971 replacement tube. > It seems that the idea is fully achievable though I would need to order > 100 units of the first batch in order to make it happen. > Naturally I am asking to see if anyone would be interested in committing > to the purchase of a number of tubes to see if I can get an order for 100 > units together. > Please let me know if you might be interested, the target price for the > first should be close to $75+whatever duties and taxes are applied. > Thereafter the price could get much closer to $50+taxes etc. > Just let me know. > - Richard > -- 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, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/bc1fdd08-8314-40cd-b01d-892156b659aan%40googlegroups.com.
