@BobTheBuilder

Yes, They are light sensitive ambient light can shift them up and down a good +/- 30 cents.

The way I got around that is not much different then what Telex was doing.

"Light biasing"

Each stabilized neon oscillator has a light bias (another neon bulb mounted next to it)

The stray ambient photons is what actually triggers off the avalanching ion charge between the cathode and anode. : ]

In complete darkness, gas diodes go into Geiger operation. (xray avalanche)

@AccordionBruce @BobTheBuilder

Yeah, it's a good title. #XRayAvalanche

A-side could be called Geiger Counter.

@AceArsenault @BobTheBuilder
I love those modern echoes of old tech. Somebody here mentioned #CharlesWheatstone, so I commented. Then yesterday I saw another mention of him

He was such a polymath!

So much technology was being developed in the 1830s it feels like he and those like him had their fingerprints on all of it

The #makers of their day
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@AccordionBruce @BobTheBuilder

Charles Wheatstone was a man ahead of his time. : ]

@AceArsenault @BobTheBuilder
Makes me think, maybe he Defined his time. The 2nd Industrial Revolution (where they invented all the stuff with the steal and steam power) would not have been what it was without people like him

And history without people like Nightingale and such. They are the exceptions because they were actually successful. They weren’t forgotten (like some) until years later

I think Wheatstone did pretty well, certainly better than ne’er-do-wells like Tesla

@AccordionBruce @BobTheBuilder

Yeah, Tesla is pretty much remembered for how bad his luck was and how poorly he did financially.

You know given how intelligent he was he could never seem to get a break.

@AccordionBruce @BobTheBuilder That's how it goes.

Some people are amazing builders and engineers, but crappy sales people and they tend to get forgotten in history.

You book looks awesome. : ]