Re: [neonixie-l] Re: Actual differences on different manufacturers?

2011-05-01 Thread David Forbes
On 5/1/11 9:01 PM, Nick wrote: I'm inclined to think that at least some of these tubes were simply rebranded by the end supplier... I bought a large number of NOS/NIB tubes from REL when they were clearing their nixie stocks - they are all completely unmarked, awaiting their final supplier to pr

[neonixie-l] Re: Actual differences on different manufacturers?

2011-05-01 Thread Nick
I'm inclined to think that at least some of these tubes were simply rebranded by the end supplier... I bought a large number of NOS/NIB tubes from REL when they were clearing their nixie stocks - they are all completely unmarked, awaiting their final supplier to print whatever on them. I had toyed

[neonixie-l] Re: Actual differences on different manufacturers?

2011-05-01 Thread A.J. Franzman
I believe that the Burroughs figure is the more realistic of the two, but still conservative. It's likely that Burroughs was not forthcoming to ITT when asked how the figure was determined, so ITT chose to be even more conservative (perhaps approaching the point of ridiciulous) with their own figur

Re: [neonixie-l] Actual differences on different manufacturers?

2011-05-01 Thread David Forbes
On 5/1/11 5:24 AM, marta_kson wrote: Has any of You out there gained some experiences on actual differences of the same tube types, but from different manufacturers? Like f.ex. the 5870 that both ITT and Burroughs has made? ITT says 30,000h for their tubes, when Burroughs says 200,000h. Thats a

[neonixie-l] Actual differences on different manufacturers?

2011-05-01 Thread marta_kson
Has any of You out there gained some experiences on actual differences of the same tube types, but from different manufacturers? Like f.ex. the 5870 that both ITT and Burroughs has made? ITT says 30,000h for their tubes, when Burroughs says 200,000h. Thats a huge difference. Are there actual indi