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Old 18th Jun 2014, 10:28 am   #1
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Hi I've noticed but never asked ! the little bulbs lit by workbench's are they showing the live cuts supplied ? I think they may be large neon set in a bulb holder can these be still obtained as would like to use the set up thanks David
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Old 18th Jun 2014, 10:43 am   #2
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Sorry, but that's completely unintelligible. Are you talking about lamps used for illumination or some kind of test lamps?

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Old 18th Jun 2014, 1:15 pm   #3
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Live circuits supplied, maybe?

But, David, like Graham, I'm not sure what you mean either.

I suspect those large neons can only be obtained as New Old Stock nowadays, if at all.

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Old 18th Jun 2014, 5:48 pm   #4
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sorry meant circuits it's a miniature bulb orange glow sorry description vague
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What's the missing word after "workbench's"?
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I think inserting a comma renders it intelligible

I can remember them used as power-on indicators on the fridge-sized, 1940s variable power supplies (by Turner and someone?) in our school physics labs in the 1990s. They were the size and shape of a pygmy incandescent lamp as used in the Ekco U243 radio, but with electrodes rather than a filament, like this: http://www.lamptech.co.uk/Spec%20She...ygmy%20Int.htm. I still have one somewhere, which you're welcome to if ever I find it.

Here are some more pics: http://www.lamptech.co.uk/Neon.htm

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Old 18th Jun 2014, 8:26 pm   #7
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Thank you Nick / Graham the Pygmy neon bulb is the type of bulb I have seen
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OK. Understood. I hadn't realised it was a grocer's apostrophe.
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They're the commonest sort these days, Graham, even amongst professional people (who don't sell fruit and veg) and even in print on occasion. Have a look at our practice website (not written by me, I hasten to add!).

David, I will look out the lamp for you.

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have a look on this page, some MES neon bulbs.
http://www.partridgeelectronics.co.uk/14Copto.htm
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Here's my ES neon. Down to my last two now, I think.

https://www.***********/photos/russel...57603792374210
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