The pattern on the film isn't that difficult to figure out, though printing
it in perfect alignment at exactly the right scale might be a challenge.
For each "lenslet" (pixel) in the array, there must be 12 possible clear
dots in the film, aligned similarly to the bulbs but inverted. For each
Yes, it makes a dot-matrix sort of pattern, but not bulb-per-dot. Like
ordinary projection readuts, it uses one bulb per symbol, but rather than
one lens and one image per bulb, it uses an array of lenses and some
optical trickery to create the symbols.
On Thursday, September 29, 2016 at
Someone got a steal, those are super rare! Seller is probably not a member
here, or he might have known better than to put a BIN on it. I'll bet the
buyer is one of us.
On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 1:39:47 PM UTC-7, marta_kson wrote:
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> Not my auktion.
>
> There is an Omni-Ray display
I followed the link to Chris's theory of operation paragraph, and I believe
he is misinformed about where the glow comes from. Sputtering is not
necessary for a nixie tube to function; the atoms which become excited and
then emit photons as they return to their normal energy state are the gas
g you
get.
On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 5:34:59 PM UTC-7, j@my-deja.com wrote:
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> I will believe it when I see it.
>
> On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 5:20:08 PM UTC-7, A.J. Franzman wrote:
>>
>> If you sputter enough metal onto any insulator, you can make
If you sputter enough metal onto any insulator, you can make it conduct.
On Tuesday, August 30, 2016 at 1:28:06 PM UTC-7, j@my-deja.com wrote:
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> I think this is improbable. On the one tube that I dissected*, the back
> substrate is an insulating white ceramic with an insulating black
Does anyone see where Westdave wrote anything new here? Considering
deleting the post and topic.
On Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 12:28:03 PM UTC-7, westdave wrote:
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I Imagine that the cathodes light just fine; only we can't see them
properly through the unevenly-metalized glass.
On Sunday, August 28, 2016 at 7:12:35 AM UTC-7, MichaelS wrote:
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> Yeah, and the photos show that the digits don't seem to light very well,
> as expected.
>
>
> On Saturday,
You got that backwards. Unused digits/segments in a nixie become "poisoned"
by stuff given off from the active segments. Trying to light those middle
vertical and diagonal segments in a tube from a well-used "Giant Nixie
Clock" from the early 1970's now, might reveal that those segments don't
Either bad luck and coincidence getting three bad tubes, or THIS:
On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 7:56:44 AM UTC-7, Nick wrote:
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> Either it's a mechanical issue with the socket stressing the pins to the
> extent the tube eventually becomes leaky
>
> ...or it's to do with the anode driver
Careful, I'm fairly sure the IEE nimo tubes have two filaments in parallel,
each serving a bank of five electron guns (a.k.a. grids). You might have
one side open but still see "continuity". I don't recall whether the XM1000
tubes have the same type of arrangement.
On Sunday, August 7, 2016 at
For anyone who wants to make a note of such things, the original brochure
#616 contains an error on page 26. Scroll down to the "SUPER SIZE" table,
entry for B-6012. There is a cross-reference to earlier part number
"BD-214" as being equivalent. This is a mistake, as you will probably have
Another degradation path I've seen too many times for NdFeB (Neodymium
"super magnets") is that they corrode and turn to powder, especially the
cheap ones from the Far East. The problem seems to be that the protective
plating applied is too thin to do any good.
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On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 10:07:56 AM UTC-7, Alic wrote:
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> after some testing I found that there still is another limitation : the
> "shipping to" setting.
> And for this setting there is no worldwide option.
> This means that I can't see an article that only ships to USA and another
>
There are tricks I've discovered that allow one to see items that don't
ship to their country in ebay searches. One parameter that ebay fortunately
currently does NOT check with respect to location restrictions, is your IP
address. So, besides setting the "worldwide" radio button, other ways
Correction, one can use diamagnetism (opposing ferromagnetism) to achieve
stable, static magnetic levitation in a gravitational field. Paramagnetism
is merely a weaker form of attraction, so it won't work. Diamagnetism is
the opposite; diamagnetic materials weakly repel magnets rather than
Maybe Dalibor could replace the envelopes on these tubes? I'd really like
to see him try (and succeed). I have a batch of the same type, with the
same problem.
On Friday, July 15, 2016 at 12:06:35 PM UTC-7, Pramanicin wrote:
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>
>
I know one of our members who has some, possibly boxed NOS, but I don't
know how many or whether he's inclined to sell so I'll let him remain
anonymous unless he decides to reply.
I'd like to see the equipment they're intended for! Jumbo clock/timer
display or two, perhaps?
On Sunday, June
On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 11:43:26 PM UTC-7, Jeff Walton wrote:
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> *From:* neonixie-l@googlegroups.com [mailto:neonixie-l@googlegroups.com] *On
> Behalf Of *Forfanatic Tsai
> *Sent:* Friday, June 03, 2016 1:08 AM
> *To:* neonixie-l
> *Subject:* [neonixie-l] Relocate tubes on single clock
>
On Wednesday, June 1, 2016 at 9:33:09 AM UTC-7, Pramanicin wrote:
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> Possibly used in an elevator?
>
IMO if it was for elevator use, the numbers should be in the opposite order
(unless 6-story cellars are common in Russia).
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On Thursday, May 12, 2016 at 11:11:59 PM UTC-7, jf...@my-deja.com wrote:
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> They finally arrived after 12 weeks. Based on the tracking information,
> it took about 11 weeks to get to New Jersey, and another week for the USPS
> to get it to California. The package was marked "Air Mail" and
I have one of those counters too. The one listed is missing a tube and its
front lens. The lens will be hard to match if someone wants to restore it
correctly -- it's a dark amber circular polarizing filter; the few places
that can supply this material call it HACP, and they charge an arm and a
Interesting that in the page you linked, the item name is "electron tube",
but it's given in the site's "connectors" category. In my LED search, I've
come upon a similar situation of a certain error that apparently originated
in an OCR mis-read of a part number, that has been copied over and
On Jun 30, 1:01 am, JohnK yend...@internode.on.net wrote:
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Subject: Re: [neonixie-l] Re: US power grid frequency tests.
The vast majority of line powered clocks use
the grid frequency for timing,
All this talk of line frequency reminds me of when we attached a
On Jun 7, 6:52 pm, Nicholas Stock nickst...@gmail.com wrote:
Exactly the same thing happened to me too Waynereplacing a tube in my
Nixichron and pop, off came the glass nipple on the base of the IN-18the
holes in the PCB aren't that forgiving
Sounds like that circuit board could use a
On Jun 7, 10:33 am, Lucky dave.lucky.po...@gmail.com wrote:
Couldn't agree with you more David, mind you this guy is taking the
mick, he even uses the original ebay listed photo's with the
originators name blurred out!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DIY-QS30-1-Remote-function-Nixie-clock-kit-/200...
On Jun 1, 2:07 pm, John Rehwinkel jreh...@mac.com wrote:
Does anyone know what the insulation material used between the
cathodes is? It looks like it might be a tiny ceramic bead, but now
we're wondering if it is really mica.
Depends on the nixie. I've seen ceramic, mica, and glass. Any
On Jun 1, 2:45 pm, Dieter Waechter i...@nocrotec.com wrote:
;-)
Yeah! that's right.
But if 1000 CD47 would be on the market, I would buy them in one lot.
;-)
... and then you'd have twice as many as you do now, right?
;-)
A.J.
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On Jun 1, 4:44 pm, Wayne de Geere III wa...@degeere.com wrote:
I'll happily by a CD47 clock from anyone who needs to make a mortgage
payment, keep me in mind. :)
I think I'll wait a few years, then it will be more like a retirement
fund than a mortgage payment.
;-)
A.J.
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On May 3, 2:16 pm, Dieter Waechter i...@nocrotec.com wrote:
Does anyone have information about this type (16845247)?
The only possibly related info I have is concerning the similarly-
numbered type B-16851453, which from the description at
http://www.fourwater.com/xmit/display1.htm seems to be a
On Apr 22, 6:05 pm, will ossumguyw...@gmail.com wrote:
There we go! You can sort of see the outline of all the other numbers
in the video too.
Yes, but they're in rectangular flat panels. Weird. Did any company
ever really make such a readout (at any size)?
A.J.
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On Apr 12, 3:00 pm, David Forbes dfor...@dakotacom.net wrote:
On 4/12/2011 2:43 PM, Nick wrote:
It seems the final anode is connected by a spring steel tag connected
to an insulating stand-off.
I'll make some on the laser cutter...
Nick
Aha! I thought it was a regular Compactron
On Mar 27, 1:14 pm, Dieter Waechter i...@nocrotec.com wrote:
Hello Nixie Friends,
This evening I have finally finished one of my mammoth projects: The E1T
clock.
I hope you enjoy:
http://www.tube-tester.com/sites/nixie/different/e1t-clock/e1t.htm
All the best
DIETER
Dieter,
Beautiful
On Mar 10, 11:07 am, Charles MacDonald cm...@zeusprune.ca wrote:
Just
today I looked at a web site of a local conservation group. As is my
habit, I went to open on of the links in a new window, and got a dialog
that said You are not allowed to right click Sorry, but It's my
Browser and
On Feb 18, 12:12 am, Quixotic Nixotic nixot...@blueyonder.co.uk
wrote:
Instead of the original glass front strip it had some backlit cheesy
semi-clad mexican dancing ladies using those ribbed pictures that
change as you move (do they have a name?).
It's called lenticular motion effect or
If you want to stop people copying or hotlinking your images, that's
what watermarks are for. Before I started watermarking, I've
discovered people hotlinking my images and always ratted them out by
changing it to a text message. I came very close a couple of times to
making it something lewd and
On Feb 4, 3:17 am, lai...@wcoil.com wrote:
Failed the first time message too large google 4 meg limit. So only
sending one picture. I need to find out how to reduce the file sizes. As
I don't need the resolution of my 10 megapixel camera. Tim
What application do you use (other than the
Did you try a new battery? With typical use, they only last about 6
months in that watch.
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What exactly do you meant by 2-10 of each? You need to specify
types! You can't really want 2-10 of every known type. There may be a
few types which are only known as a single example, CD47s are not
exactly suitable for a keychain device and are very expensive, etc.
A.J.
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Oops, never mind, I saw the types are in the subject
line. :embarrassed:
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On Jan 22, 9:19 pm, will ossumguyw...@gmail.com wrote:
1.When the device is plugged in, even with the surge protector turned
off, if I touch any of the neon lamps they light up a little bit (and
if I touch them on the common cathode side, the other lamp lights up
too). I feel no electrical
On Nov 21, 12:47 pm, David Forbes dfor...@dakotacom.net wrote:
I'll mail you a USB camera cable (I have six by now)
Best check which type he needs first -- I have three different ones
here. Two of the cameras are Fuji Finepix models, yet one takes a
standard 5-pin mini-B plug, and the other
On Nov 13, 2:44 am, Jens Boos webmas...@jb-electronics.de wrote:
so no one has these pictures of the NU124-6?
[...]
So no one has the picture? No one? :-( AJ what about you, didn't
you have a large Nixie tube picture database?
No, I don't have a large Nixie tube picture database. In
On Nov 6, 12:36 am, Ronald ronald.dek...@philips.com wrote:
The Z550M/ZM1050 tubes cannot be driven as ten individual
neon tubes. The tube was especially designed to be driven from
a 5V low voltage logic output. If you want to learn more about these
tubes read my page on how they were
On Oct 28, 4:27 am, Joe Croft j...@croftj.net wrote:
My friends Honda is labled as that and it is not a hybrid. The best any of us
can figure is that it makes no emissions when iot is parked with the engine
off.
-joe
On Thursday 28 October 2010 01:53:34 threeneurons wrote:
... failed
This should be obvious, but you didn't mention it: did you check the
tube itself by hardwiring it? It is not unheard of for nixies to
develop internal shorts.
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News from the Yahoo front: Owner Ray Weisling has awoken from his
slumber and revoked my moderator status, so I no longer have the power
to make any changes there beyond what any member could. I didn't quite
finish changing all of the member statuses, so there are about 200-300
people who joined
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