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Re: Changing gas in Nixie tubes.
Posted By: gmarsh In Response To: Re: Changing gas in Nixie tubes. (Kevin Brownfield)
Date: Thursday, 12 July 2012, at 4:47 p.m.
Hey, I fired you an e-mail last week, did you receive it? Hoping to take you up on your offer to try it.
Thanks!
> 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.
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