Thanks for the extra photos - that's really interesting. Great that you've got it working. I've been doing a bit of digging in the dustier corners of my research archive, and think I'm onto the track of what this could be. Greg, I'll DM you with a couple of questions that might help confirm that.
Jon. On Thursday, November 27, 2025 at 8:55:06 PM UTC Greg S wrote: > Hi All! Thanks for your replies. I would be curious about that russian > patent. Any chance to know in what book is that? > Finally I managed to build a spinner circuit for it parallel to find out > what are the operational conditions. As it filled with neon, it was enough > a voltage doubler in the power supply. I have 230V AC here, so the main > anode voltage is ~410V DC in use. Measured right on the dekatron, striking > voltage is ~170V, glowing voltage is ~130V. Current is ~180uA. It is fed > with only 50Hz this way, so I don't know where could be its limit. > A short video here: https://youtu.be/yeCaUHqWLII > > Greg > > [image: 20251127_133923_resize.jpg][image: 20251127_144841_resize.jpg][image: > 20251127_144905_resize.jpg][image: 20251127_145614_resize.jpg][image: > 20251127_145702_resize.jpg][image: 20251127_162233_resize.jpg] > > -- 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/82ec288a-157e-492a-9672-b120aabe1900n%40googlegroups.com.
