[neonixie-l] Re: Dekatron powered-on lifespan/duration

2016-06-07 Thread gregebert
My big clock has an A101 spinning at 1 rev/second, and has been going 24/7 for the past 3 years. No hint of degradation. -- 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 ema

Re: [neonixie-l] Russian Nixies in real world use (video)

2016-06-07 Thread Terry Kennedy
On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 12:42:50 PM UTC-4, gregebert wrote: > > Chernobyl ?? Seriously, though, it's a nuclear reactor and possibly an > RBMK style. > > It wouldn't surprise me if they were using IN-9's to indicate critical > reactor parameters. > It is the Leningrad plant, which has 4 RBMK-

[neonixie-l] Dekatron powered-on lifespan/duration

2016-06-07 Thread John Perkins
Hi, are there any rule-of-thumb upper limits for dekatrons either: powered-on spinning time? holding a single value? I'm interested in using them for a clock. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and s

[neonixie-l] Re: Relocate tubes on single clock

2016-06-07 Thread Alic
I don't own a nixie clock long enough myself, but I've heard of several examples of nixie clocks running for a long time where the tube of the 1st hours digit had to be replaced. It seems that no cathode poisoning prevention was used back then though. The future will tell which of the current li

Re: [neonixie-l] Russian Nixies in real world use (video)

2016-06-07 Thread gregebert
Chernobyl ?? Seriously, though, it's a nuclear reactor and possibly an RBMK style. It wouldn't surprise me if they were using IN-9's to indicate critical reactor parameters. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from th

Re: [neonixie-l] Russian Nixies in real world use (video)

2016-06-07 Thread Marcin Adamski
IMHO it's showing pressure and the tube model is IN-18. Marcin On 07/06/2016 19:12, Paolo Cravero wrote: Hello. I just spotted a Nixie-based numeric indicator used in real-world, filmed probably in 1980's: https://youtu.be/KX9hHqByXzo?t=535 (at 8:55) Audio is in Russian, I've no idea what it i

[neonixie-l] Russian Nixies in real world use (video)

2016-06-07 Thread Paolo Cravero
Hello. I just spotted a Nixie-based numeric indicator used in real-world, filmed probably in 1980's: https://youtu.be/KX9hHqByXzo?t=535 (at 8:55) Audio is in Russian, I've no idea what it is counting nor the tube model, but given the type of control room maybe nobody wanted to move to a more mode