Hi Jon, Just see you wrote here, I answered meanwhile. On Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 3:56:02 PM UTC+1 Jon wrote:
> 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/d0b065be-3d33-4008-ba90-3698f6175c64n%40googlegroups.com.
