[neonixie-l] Wanted - a quantity of faulty B7971s

2012-09-04 Thread Tony Adams
Hi all, I hope you won't mind me asking but I'm looking for a large quantity of reject B7971s for a future project, a minimum of 32 but the more the better, if I can find 64 that would be ideal. I'm mostly interested in tubes with missing segments but would consider hard to start as well as they

Re: [neonixie-l] Wanted - a quantity of faulty B7971s

2012-09-04 Thread John Rehwinkel
I'm mostly interested in tubes with missing segments but would consider hard to start as well as they may do what I need. Cracked or gassy are no use - it needs to light up. You tempt me to take one of my cracked ones and hook it up to several kilovolts - it'll light up. - John -- You

Re: [neonixie-l] Wanted - a quantity of faulty B7971s

2012-09-04 Thread Michail1
Tony, I may be able to help as I have at least 22 bad tubes. Just need to decide on if I can get rid of them yet. Will start retesting shortly to find the ones that light up although I only have a few that lit. Will update you. Might be hard to find a person that has 64 (good or bad)

Re: [neonixie-l] Wanted - a quantity of faulty B7971s

2012-09-04 Thread Adam Jacobs
I was thinking of that as well... What is the voltage needed to cause ionization in air? -Adam On 9/4/2012 11:48 AM, John Rehwinkel wrote: I'm mostly interested in tubes with missing segments but would consider hard to start as well as they may do what I need. Cracked or gassy are no use - it