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Re: Changing gas in Nixie tubes.

Posted By: Kevin Brownfield
Date: Saturday, 7 July 2012, at 1:16 p.m.

In Response To: Changing gas in Nixie tubes. (gmarsh)

Longer-life tubes that were manufactured later in the nixie timeline have mercury added to reduce sputtering resulting in a blue or purple tinge to the emitted light. In some cases, these colors are filtered out by a red or orange filter coating on the glass.

Sounds like if its all clear glass then yes you can make it a blue color. i have seen them but never tryed to change one from orange to blue.
Im in Ohio and would love to try it.

Messages In This Thread

• Changing gas in Nixie tubes. -- gmarsh -- Friday, 6 July 2012, at 12:20 a.m.
  • Re: Changing gas in Nixie tubes. -- Dana -- Saturday, 7 July 2012, at 6:46 a.m.
  • Re: Changing gas in Nixie tubes. -- Kevin Brownfield -- Saturday, 7 July 2012, at 1:16 p.m.
    • Re: Changing gas in Nixie tubes. -- gmarsh -- Thursday, 12 July 2012, at 4:47 p.m.
      • Re: Changing gas in Nixie tubes. -- kevin Brownfield -- Saturday, 14 July 2012, at 11:22 a.m.
        • Re: Changing gas in Nixie tubes. -- gmarsh -- Tuesday, 17 July 2012, at 10:47 p.m.
      • Re: Changing gas in Nixie tubes. -- Kevin Brownfield -- Sunday, 5 August 2012, at 2:17 p.m.
        • Re: Changing gas in Nixie tubes. -- gmarsh -- Tuesday, 7 August 2012, at 12:15 a.m.

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