[neonixie-l] Re: Neons for all!

2022-04-13 Thread Robert G. Schaffrath
Wow, I have not seen those ".22 caliber" Neon bulbs (A1H) since I was a kid back in the 1970's. Somewhere I think I have a few. A friends father was an EE and had a bunch of them from work. The friend gave me a few to play with. I recall that even though they physically looked the same, some

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: OT: Secret Life of Components

2022-04-13 Thread Nicholas Stock
Mess with Thermite at your peril. On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 3:47 AM 'Nick' via neonixie-l < neonixie-l@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Another video of the same event. You can hear someone saying "Run away"! > Astonishingly, you can see that none of the supporting bricks are left - we > found a

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: OT: Secret Life of Components

2022-04-13 Thread 'Nick' via neonixie-l
Another video of the same event. You can hear someone saying "Run away"! Astonishingly, you can see that none of the supporting bricks are left - we found a couple of bricks, on fire, in the carpark of a supermarket about 70mtrs away. No-one was injured though some had holes in their clothes

Re: [neonixie-l] Re: OT: Secret Life of Components

2022-04-13 Thread 'Ian Vine' via neonixie-l
Hilarious (could have been not so). On Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 17:41:27 BST, 'Nick' via neonixie-l wrote: I met Tim a few times years ago - In another life I used to make solid-state Tesla coils and electromagnetic can crushers/disk platter launchers using massive low-ESR capacitor