My experience with Russian tubes, the 3LO1 in particular, is that they
barely last 500 hours. I did an extremely simple scope clock six or seven
years ago and I was going to publish it for anyone to make, but I make the
mistake of mentioning it on this forum and within days the Russian seller
I made a bunch of scope clocks in the early 2000s, using the Chinese
National Electronics 3RP1As (sold by Richardson). They are most all
still running. I personally had mine wear out after about 13 years.
That's 100,000 hours!
On 6/1/15 3:18 AM, Oscilloclock wrote:
CRTs are just fabulous!
Or his competing business. ;)
On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 11:11:10 PM UTC-3, nixiebunny wrote:
Curiously, I just received an email from someone in Russia who wants
help making a B4997 watch just like the one in Metro: Last Light.
This may be his salvation.
--
David Forbes, Tucson AZ
Perhaps I'll make an artistic sculpture out of them.an embuggerance indeed!
What did they use them for given the crap lifetime?
Nick
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On Jun 2, 2015, at 05:50, Grahame Marsh grahame.ma...@googlemail.com wrote:
For sale - eight 3L01 CRTs - brand new - hours of life
My experience with Russian tubes, the 3LO1 in particular, is that they barely
last 500 hours. I did an extremely simple scope clock six or seven years ago
and I was going to publish it for anyone to make, but I make the mistake of
mentioning it on this forum and within days the Russian
Hi petehand,
Thanks for your detailed reply.
I agree, its a real shame the 3LO tubes are rather cute!
Do you mind posting your hardware for the clock. Schematics and such?
Always hungry for some more ideas or intellect.
Have you given thought to baking the tube in the oven to see if that helps
Hi Aaron,
Thanks for the reply. Yes the CRT bug bit me.
Ill gladly share the links. I will post them and copy paste the relevant
blurbs.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/NEONIXIE-L/conversations/topics/44646
shihslakji
I made a scope clock using the Russian 3LO1 tube and found the phosphor
For sale - eight 3L01 CRTs - brand new - hours of life - bags of
cuteness...
What an embuggerance :-(
Grahame
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:29 AM, petehand peteh...@gmail.com
mailto:peteh...@gmail.com wrote:
My experience with Russian tubes, the 3LO1 in particular, is that
they
When I last powered it up a couple of years ago it worked just fine.. :) A
Ham radio friend in Copenhagen (approx. 120km away from me) transmitted 1kW
in my direction and I heard him just fine - on a few metres of wire in my
living room - so it worked :p
The same type of receiver has been
