don’t press the big glowy plasma red button

hmm… this sounds fun… i just bought 18 IN-12A nixies to make a clock (yea, yea, its been done many times already)

perhaps ill make a fun little desk toy

So I just made one… pretty awesome. I just hope it wont end up hurting the tube.

I’m thinking about embedding it in a chunk of 4×4 as a small desk ornament

hey goog, why don’t you go ahead and post some of your other stuff before someone does it and you have to complain again

kidding

you have done some pretty cool stuff for as young as you are, don’t get yourself killed experimenting

are you serious goog? I would definitely like to see something like that in action, use a test dummy first though, please.

This will probably shorten tube life due to sputtering, but it looks cool so what the heck ;-)

Go even smaller and use a INS-1 or NE-2.

@conundrum
“a gassy nixie tube”

Maybe I’m missing the joke, but you don’t seem to be aware that Nixie tubes are *neon* filled devices, not hard vacuume, and that they are already “gassy”.

In service, neon devices such as Nixies and Decatrons have two main failure modes, the glass goes dark near the emitting cathode, and sometimes the cathodes can go spotty (reputedly due to contamination during manufacture, particularly in flat 7-seg displays) but they have a very long service life. In storage they seem to have almost infinite life with tubes manufactured several decades ago still working perfectly when applied.

Since standard light globes are filled with low pressure argon these might also be worth giving a go if you want a more bluish discharge.

@googfan
Go for it!

-stare- O.o