neons not lighting up all the way

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Topic: neons not lighting up all the way

Posted By: killer sonata
Subject: neons not lighting up all the way
Date Posted: May 17, 2006 at 4:39 AM

I had a wierd problem and am wondering if any of you smart people out there could enlighten me since I dont know enough about how electronics work. I am running a set of 2 cold cathode rays that are connected to a single transformer box. When I first installed them they worked fine. Shortly after the would only light up about 3/4 of the way. At first I thought maybe it was a bad ground but the DMM showed a very low resistance. While the lights were turned on I opened the transformer box (genius idea i know). I ended up connecting some of the solder poins on the back of the circuit board with my finger and zapped myself. Well low and behold, ever since then the tubes stay fully lit all the time. Can anyone explain that?

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Posted By: overworked
Date Posted: May 25, 2006 at 10:01 AM

the magic touch posted_image

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Posted By: overworked
Date Posted: May 25, 2006 at 10:02 AM

btw....you can now safely say that you just got zapped with several thousand volts.

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Posted By: boug0752
Date Posted: June 01, 2006 at 8:58 PM

Good thing that it was several thousand volts with low amps instead of the other way around... posted_image

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If your counting pennies and dimes then maybe you shouldn't be spending every penny and dime you have!!

Posted By: overworked
Date Posted: June 01, 2006 at 9:34 PM

aye carumba!

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Posted By: killer sonata
Date Posted: June 01, 2006 at 10:43 PM

Very true. If it did have high amps I would have made sure to lick my fingers first and get them nice and wet lol