What we discovered is that when you buy a surplus tube, it's usually the power supply that is shot. The tube lights up fine when you put a new power supply. This led to the current problem in the industry: the power supplies die faster than the tubes, leaving an abundance of unpotted tubes. I spoke
to the original MX9916 power supply manufacturing company some time ago and found that if I purchased 100 power supplies at a time, they would sell them to me for $350. Of course, I can still buy complete surplus tubes for
about $200. It might make sense at some point, but more tubes are making their way out through the surplus channels, so it might not.
Chris
On Friday, June 12, 1998 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, Christopher wrote:
What we discovered is that when you buy a surplus tube, it's
usually the power supply that is shot. The tube lights up fine when
you put a new power supply. This led to the current problem in the
industry: the power supplies die faster than the tubes, leaving an
abundance of unpotted tubes. I spoke to the original MX9916 power
supply manufacturing company some time ago and found that if I
purchased 100 power supplies at a time, they would sell them to me
for $350. Of course, I can still buy complete surplus tubes for
about $200. It might make sense at some point, but more tubes are
making their way out through the surplus channels, so it might
not. Chris
24 years later... shot in the dark here but what suppliers have you
gone through to get these? Know of any still around today?
Thanks, James
James Zuzelski wrote:...
24 years later... shot in the dark here but what suppliers have you
gone through to get these? Know of any still around today?
Thanks, James
There aren't that many surplus image tubes left, it seems. A few years
ago there were some Russian ones on eBay, but they were complete crap.
On Tuesday, 6 December 2022 at 19:53:02 UTC, Phil Hobbs wrote:
James Zuzelski wrote:...
24 years later... shot in the dark here but what suppliers haveThere aren't that many surplus image tubes left, it seems. A few
you gone through to get these? Know of any still around today?
Thanks, James
years ago there were some Russian ones on eBay, but they were
complete crap.
I'm slightly curious about the question... since then we've had other
options appear, such as emCCDs (and that was a while back), so: are
there really applications where a DIY-restored vintage image
intensifier is still the best solution?
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