#Vaccuum tubes in proteus 8 manuals#

#Vaccuum tubes in proteus 8 manuals#

I learned everything I have from reading all of these, some of which are original company manuals for production! This guy has a lot of books on tubes- many are quite good, and they are all FREE. He has the right equipment and serious skills.įOR OTHERS wanting to try this- if you get good with glassblowing, you can try this yourself, provided you have a vacuum pump and, for Nixies, a glass cylinder of a noble gas (less than 100$)- just do some research here: This guy makes it look EASY- there is a LOT of small bits you have to know about both glassblowing, metalurgy, and glass-to-metal contraction properties to do something like this properly (researched forever for my Nixie). Understand, if you just melt glass around a metal wire, it will not make a perfect seal unless you anneal the glass (otherwise it will crack) He’s annealing the glass, I think, in that cannister between steps to reduce strain in the glass (tempering it), and to alieviate compression stress from the heated metal shrinking at a different rate than the glass. Many Nixies have gone bad due to their seal. The hardest thing to control making a vacuum tube is the metal to glass seal- depending on the type of glass and ESPECIALLY your choice of metal, a good seal can be hard to achieve. Lastly, I’d be curious to see the working life for his tubes.

What metals did he use? I’ve been planning my Uber Nixie to use tantalum wire for ultimate cathode & annode life, but that is a bit overkill… In Nixies, a very small amount of mercury was often used along with argon/neon inside, and varying the noble gas along with the amount of mercury changed the intensity of the orange. Nixie by hand myself, I wonder if he used any mercury in these (didn’t see any). His journey from important manager to revolutionary showcases the book’s cynicism about corporate life and, more specifically, the many downsides of technological progress.I second the notion to create Nixie tubes using this!Īs someone who was actually PLANNING to build a giant For the first time in his life, Paul feels like he’s working toward something he actually believes in, and though the revolution ultimately fails, he takes comfort in the fact that he tried to do something to make the world a better place. He thus joins the Ghost Shirts for real, working alongside Finnerty and a righteous reverend named James Lasher in an effort to overthrow the country’s highly mechanized system. To make it believable that Paul would want to do this in the first place, the company pretends to fire him-what they don’t know, though, is that he has actually decided to quit. As Finnerty gets involved with an anti-automation revolutionary group called the Ghost Shirt Society, Paul is instructed by Kroner (his boss) to infiltrate the organization and become an informer. Torn between his own apathy and Anita’s constant motivation, Paul’s misgivings about his job become even more pronounced when his friend and former coworker, Ed Finnerty, visits and slowly helps him see the absurdity of his corporate life.

Still, though, he half-heartedly climbs the corporate ladder because he’s in line for a promotion and is constantly spurred on by his industrious, status-obsessed wife, Anita. He used to believe in the value of engineering and automation, but now he’s skeptical of the inequality it has created in society. But despite his corporate success, Paul is depressed with his station in life. The novel’s protagonist, Doctor Paul Proteus is the most important manager in Ilium.