Still in service.

[Luke]

A couple of months ago I was passing through a small village in France, when I noticed that the garage still used numitron tubes in their petrol pumps. Today I went back to photograph them.

Does anybody know of any other equipment housing nixies or numitrons still being used on a daily basis like this. My first nixie encounter was at a petrol pump in Coventry when I was about seven. My dad would fill up the Ford transit camper at the Shell garage on the London Road. I was amazed by the  numbered lights counting. I'm Shore there was a halfpenny symbol tube aswell, or maybe I'm just imagining that. 

[Arne Rossius]

Hi,

Luke wrote:
> A couple of months ago I was passing through a small village in France,
> when I noticed that the garage still used numitron tubes in their petrol
> pumps. Today I went back to photograph them.

This is very interesting. I took photos of a similar pump in 2003, also
in France. You can see that the second digit on the price per litre is
also a large tube, because they moved the decimal point when they
changed from Francs to Euros. You can still see the old decimal point
covered with black tape.

Since the pump in your photos has a small tube for the second digit, it
looks like they replaced the tube after changing to Euros. Does anyone
know which types of numitron they might be, and if the two sizes use the
same socket?

I also have another photo from 2002, where the display looks like a
regular 7-segment VFD, but with a weird translucent sheet in front of it.

> Does anybody know of any other equipment housing nixies or numitrons still
> being used on a daily basis like this.

My uncle has a very good nixie multimeter which he still uses as his
primary instrument, because even after all this time, it's still
ridiculously precise, without recalibration for decades. I also own a
nixie multimeter, but it's lower resolution (Philips PM-2421 with ZM1000
tubes) which I still use occasionally, mostly for testing batteries. I'm
sure there are a few labs which still use instruments with nixie tubes
or panaplex displays.

And my school still have some counters and timers for physics class
which used nixie tubes, although I'm not 100% sure they still use them
(they did use them at least until I graduated in 2006). Since these
devices are purpose-made for demonstrations in front of the class, the
nixie tubes are quite large, probably 40 or 50 mm digit height.


Best Regards,
Arne

[Terry Kennedy]

On Thursday, December 4, 2014 6:33:28 PM UTC-5, Luke wrote:

Does anybody know of any other equipment housing nixies or numitrons still being used on a daily basis like this.

One of the local discount gas station/truck stops here (suburbs of New York City, US) still has Numitrons on their diesel pumps. I guess their thinking Is "if it's not broken, why replace it?"

I'll take some pictures the next time I'm there, if it doesn't freak the staff out too much.

[Tidak Ada]

Many Munitions are still used in environments where high contrast is needed. For example airborne displays.

 

eric

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A couple of months ago I was passing through a small village in France, when I noticed that the garage still used numitron tubes in their petrol pumps. Today I went back to photograph them.

Does anybody know of any other equipment housing nixies or numitrons still being used on a daily basis like this. My first nixie encounter was at a petrol pump in Coventry when I was about seven. My dad would fill up the Ford transit camper at the Shell garage on the London Road. I was amazed by the  numbered lights counting. I'm Shore there was a halfpenny symbol tube aswell, or maybe I'm just imagining that. 

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[Tidak Ada]

Small figures are used for figuere behind the sepatator comma It is/was a
habit.

eric

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[Jon]

On Friday, December 5, 2014 12:58:26 PM UTC, Tidak Ada wrote:

Many Munitions are still used in environments where high contrast is needed. For example airborne displays.

Just loving that example of spelling auto-correction - I had to read it twice! :)

I remember numitron display petrol pumps made by Gilbarco from the late 70s, early 80s. Haven't seen one in ages though.

Jon.

 

[Nicholas Stock]

I too had to do a double take on that one....munitions would certainly lead to high contrast, especially when they go off...;-)

I remember numitrons on petrol pumps at our local garage as a kid...seemed so normal and pedestrian back then, now I love their incandescent glow in clocks...

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