[Test-Equipment] Nixie project

[John Kolb]

I wonder if an IR LED shining on them would be enough to allow them 
to function-
it would be invisible to humans.

John

At 07:45 AM 7/2/2010, you wrote:
>I have been working on a Nixie clock and when I first plugged in the 6 old
>nixies that I had only two of them would work.  I have had the clock running
>for a few days and now 5 out of the 6 nixies are working.  I remember
>reading somewhere that they need "radiation ionization" to operate and
>wonder if this comes from normal background radiation.  These tubes have
>been in the junk box for years.
>
>73,
>
>Bill, WA2dvu