27 Sep
2012
27 Sep
'12
4:30 p.m.
From: mouse at rodents-montreal.org
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....)
I've never seen one, though. While that doesn't prove much, I've never
even heard of one, either, so they can't be all that common.
Hi If you think the name nixie is misused, try a search on ebay for neon
lights.It is easily a 1000:1 of finding anything close to neon or argon even.Dwight
[...]
(are all green displays nixie tubes I should ask?).
*NO* green displays are Nixie
tubes. Green displays are either incandescents with
green filters, or more
likely vacuum-fluorescent.
Or LEDs, though I would tend to assume LEDs would be easily identified
as such (eg, by lack of a glass envelope).
Mouse