Check out these!

97 views
Skip to first unread message

martin martin

unread,
Oct 14, 2019, 9:39:22 PM10/14/19
to neonixie-l

Bill Notfaded

unread,
Oct 15, 2019, 8:58:16 AM10/15/19
to neonixie-l
Vannadiy must have found a nice stock of NOS tubes.  I suppose if you're going to play with that type of magic eyes it doesn't get better than NOS because this type the older ones often suffer from faint hard to see eyes because they're worn out.  I've bought a TON of stuff from that guy or maybe girl???... he/she's always came through for me.  His prices vary but he does wheel and deal from my experience.  Funny thing I'm not sure if he's a he or she because the videos often have a woman in them and his old ebay picture had a guy on a bike?

Robert G. Schaffrath

unread,
Oct 16, 2019, 9:31:56 AM10/16/19
to neonixie-l
I may have to get one or two. I have seen some Chinese boards that use them as VU meters. Very interesting to watch and I love the shade of green they produce.

The "Magic Eye" tubes are some of my earliest memories of electronics. My parents ancient Fisher stereo uses a very rare 6GE12 tube (the receiver still works though the tube has faded with age). My grandparents had an old Dumont TV that used a 6AL7 for the built-in AM/FM tuner and I still have one of my grandfathers NOS spares. I also have a NOS 6E5 that I bought back in the late 1970's that I wanted to do something with but never did. I always thought it would have been very cool if the 6E5 could have the entire indicator disc swept from light to dark rather than just the "wedge". It would have made an incredible seconds display for a clock.Slowly going from dark to light over a period of sixty seconds, like a second hand sweeping around, and then resetting to dark. I suppose have the "wedge" close and open once a second might make an interesting display too. 

Paul Andrews

unread,
Oct 16, 2019, 9:54:00 AM10/16/19
to neonixie-l
He’s a he

Bill Notfaded

unread,
Oct 16, 2019, 7:09:28 PM10/16/19
to neonixie-l
That's what I thought too Paul. I think he may have his wife or gf help with his videos... Unless he likes to wear nail polish! Hehe!

Bill

Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages