Usagi Electric | Playing with Neons (NE2 and MTX90) @UsagiElectric | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 18 hours ago.
This is an episode I’ve been wanting to do for a while, because I absolutely love neons! Sure they’re gorgeous to look at and a modern LED can only dream of putting out such a good looking glow, but they’re also have some incredibly unique characteristics that we can exploit to build some really, really cool stuff. So tag along as we learn how neons work and what makes them special, as well as builing some circuits to test them out.

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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:13 Size comparison
3:10 What is a neon lamp?
5:03 How do they work?
6:52 But what makes them really special?
8:33 Some applications for neons
9:27 A few examples to play with
12:54 Scoping the astable multivibrator
14:52 Enter the MTX90
15:58 What’s going on here?
18:50 It’s a thyratron!
19:45 Can the MTX90 multivibrate?
20:38 Scoping the oscillator
22:46 Bunny!