1,320 CHF
Electrosplit Breitling, Geneve, “Electrosplit”, No. 8660. Made circa 1970. Fine and rare, electronic 220v mains/12v battery operated timer with nixie-tube display and settings to time up to two events. To be sold without reserve Aluminium and grey plastic coated, carrying handle, fascia with two sets of buttons for run/stop/reset and display, time setting buttons and power on/charge switch, battery power-reserve window. Nixie-tube display with red plastic screen, inscribed below Hours; Minutes; Seconds; 1/10; 1/100. Electronic. Dim. 37 x 13.5 x 27 cm Notes Nixie Tube The Nixie Tube is an electronic device for displaying numerals or other information. The glass tube contains a wire mesh anode, and multiple cathodes in the shape of Arabic numerals. Applying power to one cathode surrounds it with an orange glow discharge. The tube is filled with a gas at low pressure, usually mostly neon, often with a little mercury and/ or argon. Although it resembles a vacuum tube in appearance, its operation does not depend on thermionic emission of electrons from a heated cathode. It is therefore called a cold cathode tube (a form of gas-filled tube), or a variant of a neon lamp. Such tubes rarely exceed 40 °C (104 °F) even under the severest of operating conditions in a room at ambient temperature. The most common form of Nixie Tube has ten cathodes in the shape of numerals 0 to 9 (and occasionally a decimal point or two) but there are also types that show various letters, signs and
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10
