27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
3:26 p.m.
On 09/27/2012 04:01 PM, Mouse wrote:
Well, if you mean the trademark meaning of "Nixie".
But for the more genericized meaning, I can't see any reason a similar
device couldn't be made and filled with a different gas mixture so as
to produce a green instead of red/orange glow. (It might require some
circuit redesign, as I suspect it means using higher voltages....)
Except that that's not at all how VFDs work. I think "Nixie" and
"nixie" are similar to "Kleenex" and "kleenex", but maybe
not quite THAT
similar. These other devices have proper names, and their differences
are more than superficial.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
[...] (are all green displays nixie tubes I should
ask?).
*NO* green displays are Nixie tubes.