Hi Greg - I sent a PM some weeks back. Shout if you didn't get it and I'll try again!
Cheers, Jon. On Thursday, December 18, 2025 at 7:22:01 PM UTC Greg S wrote: > 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/07e8808d-cc3b-4c7f-a84c-ea5466ca98cfn%40googlegroups.com.
