30 Mar
2007
30 Mar
'07
1:13 p.m.
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Ethan Dicks wrote:
It would be sensitive to the light in the room,
wouldn't it? ISTR
there was some note somewhere about the avalanche voltage on a neon
bulb being affected by swings in ambient light, but as this stuff is s
bit before my era, I could easily be wrong.
There's a document on this site that talks about the "Dark Effect"in
glow lamps:
http://www.donsbulbs.com/bulbs/g/l/ge1965glowlamp/005.gif
It's part of a GE publication, the whole of which is on that site:
http://www.donsbulbs.com/cgi-bin/r/t.pl/library1965geglowlamps.html
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
