Let’s see some Tube Glow!

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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,133
    invalid wrote: »
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    Those are beautiful looking tubes all lit up. I have a pair of 6895 mercury vapor tubes (the largest one on the left) and I can only wish I had the knowledge to get them to light up. I bet they'd make a great looking night light. c4n46gg89qdi.jpg


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  • invalid
    invalid Posts: 1,365
    motorstereo wrote: »
    invalid wrote: »
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    Those are beautiful looking tubes all lit up. I have a pair of 6895 mercury vapor tubes (the largest one on the left) and I can only wish I had the knowledge to get them to light up. I bet they'd make a great looking night light. c4n46gg89qdi.jpg


    That is a big tube, it probably needs 5 volts and 10 amps on the filament.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,791
    that it does ;)

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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,133
    Ok then; now how does one go about making steampunk night lites out of them? I'd love to see them lit up.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,791
    edited November 2021
    Well, you need a transformer with a 5.0 V @ (better than ) 10 A secondary. Probably not hard to find.
    The anode needs 20 VDC to ionize the mercury, apparently.
    You'll want to wear sunglasses to attenuate the UV produced by the mercury plasma -- although the glass envelope of the rectifier itself should help. The spectral line at 254 nm is intense (especially at low pressure).

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  • msg
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    I like blubs.
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  • motorstereo
    motorstereo Posts: 2,133
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    Well, you need a transformer with a 5.0 V @ (better than ) 10 A secondary. Probably not hard to find.
    The anode needs 20 VDC to ionize the mercury, apparently.
    You'll want to wear sunglasses to attenuate the UV produced by the mercury plasma -- although the glass envelope of the rectifier itself should help. The spectral line at 254 nm is intense (especially at low pressure).

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    http://lamptech.co.uk/Documents/M3 Spectra.htm

    Thank you for the detailed advice. Now there's a little voice in my head telling me that I should not attempt this and enjoy those works of art as they are.
    Installing a kt88 one pin off is still fresh in my memory. That got my attention as the tube started vibrating, instantly turned green and then let the magic smoke out of the amp. Yes I'm thinking I'd be wise to listen to that little voice.
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,148
    msg wrote: »
    I like blubs.
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    That's a great pic, Scott B) Does this mean you have finally fired your vinyl system back up?
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  • TEAforONE
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    Aric Audio Motherlode II in the main system

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,791
    edited November 2021
    Light a normal vacuum tube's filament - safer and easier. Even better: put a string of tube filaments in series and use it on your holiday tree. :) Maybe use an isolation transformer, just in case. The filaments will get warm but not hot -- in most tubes, any way. :)

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  • michaeljhsda2
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    michaeljhsda2 Posts: 2,182
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    SDA SRS 2.3TL's
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,791
    edited November 2021
    ... another easy way to get cool visual effects -- get (or make*) a plasma ball. :)

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    Probably goes without saying that our son took that photo, albeit a long, long time ago. :)
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    We still have the plasma ball; it's in the basement. Imagine that?! ;)

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    * see, e.g., https://www.instructables.com/Make-a-Plasma-Globe-out-of-a-Light-Bulb/ It's not exactly hard, but not quite easy, either. ;)
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  • msg
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    jdjohn wrote: »
    msg wrote: »
    I like blubs.
    Parks Audio Budgie Tube Phono Preamp
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    That's a great pic, Scott B) Does this mean you have finally fired your vinyl system back up?

    Hehe, unfortunately, Jody, that's just a poseur pic from a while back, probably back from before we started talking about those cart searches!
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  • invalid
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    motorstereo wrote: »
    Ok then; now how does one go about making steampunk night lites out of them? I'd love to see them lit up.

    I wouldn't use Mercury rectifier tubes as a night light, to easy to bump into and break. It would be a lot easier and safer to use a voltage regulator tube like an OD3 or something like that.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,791
    invalid wrote: »
    motorstereo wrote: »
    Ok then; now how does one go about making steampunk night lites out of them? I'd love to see them lit up.

    I wouldn't use Mercury rectifier tubes as a night light, to easy to bump into and break. It would be a lot easier and safer to use a voltage regulator tube like an OD3 or something like that.

    Good call. The "glow discharge" voltage regulator tubes are filled with one of noble gases (argon, krypton, neon, perhaps others) which are benign (in fact, more or less chemically unreactive).
    I had to look up what gases these "cold cathode" tubes use :p so I cannot guarantee the accuracy of this -- but it sounds about right.

    https://www.tdpri.com/threads/0c3-voltage-regulator-tube-questions.314897/#post-3955886

    Pretty pictures, too :)

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  • jbreezy5
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  • nooshinjohn
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,962
    msg wrote: »
    I like blubs.
    Parks Audio Budgie Tube Phono Preamp
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    I believe that Budgie is out of production now, but very well sought after still. Hold on to that puppy.
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  • DividedSky
    DividedSky Posts: 108
    edited December 2021
    Doshi Audio - not the best pics but love the tube magic preamp and phonostage zomxone5l4ep.jpeg
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  • cjmustang69
    cjmustang69 Posts: 117
    Melody AN845 Integrated Amp. Tubes will keep room warm on cold days

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  • Faustin
    Faustin Posts: 1,149
    Bottlehead Paramount monoblocks with 300b tubes and the 5670's replaced with an adapter and 6SN7's. Aric Audio Transcendent pre with phono stage.

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  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    Old reliable

    Dared SL 2000a

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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,410
    Dust much? :p
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  • hochpt21
    hochpt21 Posts: 5,423
    edited December 2021
    nooshinjohn wrote: »
    Dust much? :p

    I’m doin mah best ova here

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    :p:p:p
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  • TEAforONE
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    Faustin wrote: »
    Bottlehead Paramount monoblocks with 300b tubes and the 5670's replaced with an adapter and 6SN7's. Aric Audio Transcendent pre with phono stage.

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    Nice! I’m a HUGE fan of Aric’s gear! I have three of his preamps. Motherlode II, Unlimited,and an old 3.5.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,437
    hochpt21 wrote: »
    Old reliable

    Dared SL 2000a

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    I have an early 50's Brimar for that.
    If you're interested.
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  • Faustin
    Faustin Posts: 1,149
    Dared SL 2000. My first piece of tube gear.
    Sigh. Punches way above it's price point.
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    haimoc Posts: 1,031
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