Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie tube at 300 000 V

Some years back when I did a lot of Tesla Coil stuff, one of the standard things to do was light a fluorescent tube just by holding it near the topload. I kept a bunch of cheap Chinese nixies with the coils for public demos. If you search YouTube for "Cambridge Teslathon" you might find some

Re: [neonixie-l] Nixie tube at 300 000 V

Nice, thanks for sharing... Turns out 300,000V *is not good for cathode poisoning*who would have known? ;) Nick On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: > I ran across this IN-18 page by Chris Gerekos: >

[neonixie-l] Nixie tube at 300 000 V

I ran across this IN-18 page by Chris Gerekos: http://www.hazardousphysics.com/main/in18clock/IN-18_Nixie_Tube_Clock_1.html If you think adding a blue LED glow to a nixie tube is cool, apparently this is how real men do it: http://www.hazardousphysics.com/misc/Nixie_tube_at_30V.html /tvb