More about tubes (64)

1-05-2012 | Coming up next month in Elektor Magazine — normally; hopefully — is a thermo/hygrometer project with Nixie Tubes. These vintage display tube...

1-11-2011 | After the XXL instalments with ditto texts and theory published the previous two months, Retronics relaxes for a bit with a tube sightseeing...

1-05-2011 | There is no doubt Nixie tubes are once again trendy. No other display technology has quite the same character. The fact that we are unlikely...

7-03-2010 | Carbon Nanotubes are VERY TINY cylindrical shaped carbon molecules. And when I say very tiny, I mean in the nanometer-scale (hence the name)...

1-01-2010 | Herwe use a green glowing valve as a CPU activity meter. Power and control are both provided by the USB port. A simpler variant on the circu...

1-01-1993 | The Type Y112 fluoractor(TM) fromTexas Instruments is a specially designed thyristor for starting fluorescent tubes. Its main advantages...

1-11-1992 | Low-pressure fluorescent tube lighting is justifiably popular because it is 4-6 times as efficient as metal-filament Iamps, the life of a...

1-07-1992 | When the Atari ST is provided with an external hard-disk drive, it has to be reset after about 15 seconds, as otberwise the drive is not...

1-05-1991 | Over the last few years, a variety of low-power Helium-Neon (HeNe) laser tubes has founds its way in into the electronics surplus trade circ...

1-11-1989 | TRAVELLING-WAVE TUBES B. Higgins Although many electronics engineers are not familiar with their basic operation and applications, travellin...