Thanks Jon, your PM is welcome if you have time! On Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 11:53:14 AM UTC+1 Jon wrote:
> 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/52a0d5a6-0e4e-4354-b3d8-2c947e01fe95n%40googlegroups.com.
