Re: [TCML] Nixie tube at 300 000 volts

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These pictures are excellent!! 

Perhaps you could talk a little about your camera and what settings you used? 


Cheers, 


John "Jay" Howson IV 


"Why thank you, I will be happy to take those electrons off your hands." 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerekos Christopher" <gerekos.christopher@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> 
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 5:08:03 PM 
Subject: Re: [TCML] Nixie tube at 300 000 volts 

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 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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