My dad gave me an old lamp he'd made out of a radar tube off of an EC-121's RADAR set. His lamp was only the tube mounted to a base with a little lamp socket pushed up into the tube. (Note - the tube is still integral - the glass hasn't broken, as far as I can tell.) He mentioned in passing last night, however, that he wished he'd gotten his electrician to show him how to "...wire it up to glow blue," when he made it. Apparently, GI's in Vietnam lucked up on these discarded vacuum tubes and wired them so that the heater grid (I'm guessing at that - I don't even know if that's the right term or not.) would glow bright blue when 120 VAC was applied across two contacts on the tube. I tried to scope it out with a multimeter, but no luck so far. Does anyone have any experience with this, and can you tell me where to solder my connections to get this effect?
2007-03-04
11:30:49
·
2 answers
·
asked by
snapz007
2