Thanks Greg - got it! Jon.
On Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 10:40:53 PM UTC Greg S wrote: > 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/abbaa32c-cba8-4101-871b-7e1e0e12a4a0n%40googlegroups.com.
