Re: [TCML] Nixie tube at 300 000 volts

[Gerekos Christopher <gerekos.christopher@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for your reply. I tried with an old but still working nixie, and
it was really awesome indeed. One of the digits suffered only from minor
increase in -already present- cathode poising. I've uploaded seven new
pictures on the same album.

Cheers,

Christopher

2013/4/14 Jonathan Peakall <jpeakall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> I have done this with a live Nixie with no ill effects. I didn't let it
> get really hot though. Was very cool looking. The tube is still functioning
> fine.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
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> On 4/14/2013 12:39 PM, Gerekos Christopher wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I accidentally broken the glass hull of one of my nixie tubes while
>> working
>> on my clock. So I tried to figure out how to give it a second life. And
>> here are the results !
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/**gerekos.christopher/**NixieTubeAt300000V<https://picasaweb.google.com/gerekos.christopher/NixieTubeAt300000V>
>>
>> Well, we all agree it would have been much more interesting to do this on
>> a
>> working tube (with the gas mixture still inside), but I'm afraid this
>> would
>> have fatally damaged it (wouldn't it ?). The fact is that the nixie was
>> really hot after the experiement (no surprise here) and these little
>> things
>> were -understandably- not made to withstand this.
>>
>> Yet the fine, intricate sparks the mesh anode produced are quite
>> beautiful.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris Gerekos
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