Re:Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switc...
by dekhn on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:18PM
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I recently built a "vacuum tube nightlight" (http://www.electronixandmore.com/projects/vrtubenightlight/i...) because I thought the plasma tubes give off such a nice glow. But they aren't very bright and it's hard to see the plasma; these rectifiers are way more attractive but I can't bring myself to work with them.
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Re:Glowing mercury thyratrons: inside a 1940s Teletype switc...
by planteen on Monday September 10, 2018 @01:45PM
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> these rectifiers are way more attractive but I can't bring myself to work with them.
Cool project! Do you say you can't bring yourself to work with them for safety reasons (as in, I imagine mercury vapor is very dangerous if it escapes the tube) or is there another reason?