[CLOSED] Starting gas for a pretty good price

[RayJay]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

I meant to ask this last time I saw this thread bumped but how much plasma do these tubes show? I have one small bare tube red but there's only maybe an inch of actual bare tube.

Yeah no-one has really answered this yet? Does it show the same amount of plasma as the small open one in the other thread?? If it does put me down for a tube+psu.

Does anyone have an actual photo of the unit we will be getting? Not just "oh it looks like this one".

Cheers.

Edit:

So does it look like this one..

Or this one?

If it looks like this one then I want one.. Maybe 2 with PSU's

 

[ultimatekaiser]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

I sadly don't have a pic, but it shows a bit more than those tubes. I literally looks like the P122, just the smaller 6" not 9". the top tube is a laser devices tube and is unrelated completely. I've already explained that its like the one on the bottom, but has the round belljar glass style end, rather than a metal end cap on both sides. like most all melles griot tubes

 

[RayJay]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

I sadly don't have a pic, but it shows a bit more than those tubes. I literally looks like the P122, just the smaller 6" not 9". the top tube is a laser devices tube and is unrelated completely. I've already explained that its like the one on the bottom, but has the round belljar glass style end, rather than a metal end cap on both sides. like most all melles griot tubes

Beautiful! Sign me up for 1 tube + psu please!

When will this be going ahead?

 

[ultimatekaiser]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

I'm not quite sure when it will take off, but I'm aiming for sometime toward the end of the month-ish

 

[Jstr]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

I apologize in advance if this is a dumb question, but what is the 68k ballast and Alden? Is it needed?

Sorry, no experience with gas - this will be my first.

 

[ultimatekaiser]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

if you're getting both I'll be including everything you need to run it (except a wall wart DC power source unless you ask) I'll also be including instructions.

The tube needs a ballast resistor to stablize the current for the tube to operate properly. the Alden is the standard connector used for connecting tubes to power supples. though if you're getting one of the small power supplies, you won't need an alden, as the PSU has flying leads for the tube.

 

[Mattronium]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

I'll take 1 tube.
Could I get a ballast & Alden, and for how much?

thanks,

 

[ultimatekaiser]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

Added you. I can add a Alden for about 20 bucks. They're pretty expensive to get. Keep in mind if you're going to try to find your own power supply you won't need an Alden connector because the power supplies that use these don't use them. The Alden is bigger than they are! Those tiny power supplies just have flying leads for the tube. They only need about a KVDC or so + ballast. Most standard power supplies are too powerful, with too high a current. Most only pot adjust down to 4mA which is still too much.

 

[Blarg King]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

So would I need an Alden for using the included PSU?

If not, how much for a tube, PSU, and ballast?

 

[ultimatekaiser]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

No you wouldn't. The PSU has leads for the tube. There's really no need for an Alden with these unless you're making your own supply or something.

 

[Atomicrox]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

Do we have a closing date or will you wait to get 10 units? either way is fine by me, but I'm afraid people are gonna forget about the GB

 

[ultimatekaiser]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

I'm aiming for toward the end of the month. So maybe in a week or two. We have enough people I can probably make up for the other two tubes if I must and just save and sell them later in the B/S/T. All members will pay shipping to themselves. I will be ordering something for myself with it so I will pay half the initial shipping, the other half will be split among members.

 

[Mattronium]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

I'll take another bare tube w/ballast resistor, I don't think I'll need an Alden connector, so you can take that of the list for me.

 

[ultimatekaiser]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

I'll take another bare tube w/ballast resistor, I don't think I'll need an Alden connector, so you can take that of the list for me.

Okay just to clarify see you want to teach them to ballasts?

 

[LtKernelPanic]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

I keep forgetting to ask but do you have any idea if these tubes work with those small "gold" HeNe PSUs that were all over flebay a year or so ago? I've run the small red tube in my avatar off it before so I think it would but there's absolutely nothing on the PSU and I can't remember its input voltage. Unfortunately I'm 1500 miles from home (and ironically about 20 minutes from MI-Laser) now or I'd post a pic of mine.

 

[ultimatekaiser]

Re: [Renewed feeler]Starting gas for a pretty good price.

Probably, but it'd likely overdrive it. All of those little Goldbrick PSU's are the same as the acrylic ones, just a different manufacturer. Actual PSUs that drive these little tubes correctly are very scarce. The smallest little break PSU but I've seen other than these as a 1500-2000V brick that current ranges 4-7mA. These tubes run 1000-1500V @ 3.7mA or less. Those of their power supplies would likely light them but they would get hot, and it'd stress the power bricks regulator running it out of its compliance range.