[neonixie-l] Re: Nixie Tube Robot Sculpture

2021-06-15 Thread mroboto
Those VFD eyes really give it some life. Well done. On Monday, 14 June 2021 at 21:41:32 UTC+8 Richard Arndt wrote: > Cool idea! > > On Sunday, June 13, 2021 at 8:31:56 PM UTC-4 tavis...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Hey guys, I thought I'd share another one of my Nixie Tube projects with >> the only

[neonixie-l] Neon - Argon mixture

2021-06-15 Thread ErikPaul
So I've been working on making my own nixies, main dream is to produce a tube using uranium glass tubing in place of your regular boro or soda lime glass. In sourcing fill gases(not a huge quantity of suppliers who sell in small quantities to non-commercial) i keep coming across a mix called

[neonixie-l] Re: Neon - Argon mixture

2021-06-15 Thread gregebert
The well-known Penning mixture is 0.5 to 2.0% Argon, and that seems to fit with your graphs. Mixing this on your own into the tube itself could be challenging due to the small fraction of Ar; You might be able to find it pre-mixed, or otherwise try to mix K4 with neon on your own in a separate

Re: [neonixie-l] Neon - Argon mixture

2021-06-15 Thread Nick Andrews
Okay, so I can confirm I'm not the only psycho with crazy aspirations... Using U glass seems like a very cool idea. Watching Dalibor's videos is mesmerizing and I can't imagine the frustration and hours of trial and error he went through. But that's half the fun, right? A diff pump or turbopump