Captain's Blog 12-15-11 Nixie Counter, Carbon Heatshield, and Fun

Nice mellow day, the demolition is pretty much done, things are getting clean. Ynos and I tinkered a little on some really awesome old test gear (NIXIE TUBES OMFG!), and Joe brought by some fun for a demo.

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[cluelesswako]

anthesis?

Chris, you must kick ass at Scrabble.

[Physicsduck]

@cluelesswako Antithesis an-TI-the-sis, it means "the opposite thought". And I would do a hell of a lot better at scrabble if I dated normal women. I have a long history of dating wicked smart women, especially multilinguists, writers, scientists, and lit geeks. I can't remember the last time I won at the game.

[sparkyprojects]

I'm the old guy shouting 'You're doing it wrong'

With a frequency input, press the reset, it will count the pulses,

The 1mc is a calibration output

I have a counter, watch here, mine has a start/stop input which is handy for using as a stopwatch, this can have sensors at the start and end of a process.

/watch?v=qS2osRTR1W4

That freq gen looks like it has an output for setting up audio equipment.

[BlitzKdotCOM]

Chris I've had one of those HP frequency counters... Open that sucker up and take a look at its beautiful wiring! Those things were built by hand! Also the Nixie tubes are mounted to a "card". Very cool way of doing it.

[RussellTuan]

that counter's internal oscilator is good.it is dead on 10 Mhz when you switch to check.

[Anterras]

Batman rocking out to some Kansas instead of Queen for a change.

[RageRioting]

can you not sue the contractors that installed the system or was this donated work ?

[MrSciencetificsasuke]

can you make a TGG video on nixie tubes like how they work and the technology behind them? i'm only 14 and i'm sure other kids like me would be interested in them.

[IstasPumaNevada]

Magnet-on-a-stick: Moose Tested, Puppy Approved

[RazgrizAlphaONE]

The frequency generator is probably outputting audio to generate a tone. In my school's studio, we generate I think its a 2khz tone that we put in some videos with color bars and slate so we can adjust/sync up equipment to what the main system uses.

[msylvain59]

I'll yell also, you should have checked if the freq gen is operating properly with an O'scope, and pressed again down that damn Reset button. Btw open these suckers in order to: 1 make a great videos about what's inside 2- check for for bad caps, bad solder joints, and clean all the rotary switches and card edge connectors, these great devices deserve it. (part 2 would obviously be a week-end job for Mr Kidwell)

[Balarick]

wow! moose is creative. your right, today's Captain's Blog is very riveting.

[Xxfadedshadows1xX]

makes me think fallout3