Anode Mesh or Anode Grid?

[Dieter Waechter]

Hi Friends,
What is the right word to use in English?
"Anode Mesh" or "Anode Grid"?
My thoughts: It is not a "grid" - since (you know) a grid in an electron
tube can never be the anode.
It is more a "mesh".
Or is another word better?
What do you think?
Dieter

[David Forbes]

Mesh is a good English word for the anode material.

I do not know of a better word for this item.
--
David Forbes, Tucson, AZ

[kay486]

Are you writing some article? Because if so, i cant wait to read it, since i know you have a lot of knowledge about nixie tubes and im always happy to know more! :D

[Dekatron42]

I'd say that you can use both grid and mesh since they do not describe the electrical properties in a Nixie, just the structure of the Anode made up by a grid or mesh structure. But in a thermionic valve they describe the control electrode if you use the word grid. In a thermionic valve you usually se mesh being used for describing the anode structure surrounding the cathode and grid, like in the EF86 which come in several different types where a few have a mesh Anode.

 

Old patents use both mesh and grid to describe an Anode surrounding the digits and they then mean the structure of the anode and not the electrical properties like in a thermionic valve, that has already been explained by using the word Anode.

 

/Martin

[Dennis]

I would go with mesh since it really isn't a grid or used like a grid. And it looks like a mesh. Dennis

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[Dieter Waechter]

> Are you writing some article?

No, I just was curious. ;-)
Dieter

[kay486]

Ah ok, by the way, hows the big site update going?

[Dieter Waechter]

Hi!

> Ah ok, by the way, hows the big site update going?

ahhh... it's super super super delayed.
I still have so many orders that I don't know what to do first.
I have so many data I want to put online.. but no chance at the moment.
200-300 Nixie e-mails a day are hard to process for one man only.
;-)
Dieter

[kay486]

A day?! Whoah, i had no idea you could be that busy! Are you selling clocks / tubes as a fulltime job?

[Dieter Waechter]

Hi!

> A day?!

Yes, a day....

> Whoah, i had no idea you could be that busy! Are you selling clocks /
> tubes as a fulltime job?

No no... just a hobby. ;-)
Dieter

[Lucky]

Dieter your idea of a 'hobby' is what we mere mortals class as 'a business' haha