[sdiy] Visible Tube Organ

[Toby Paddock]

http://www.kitphoenixx.freeserve.co.uk/project_2.htm
Neon Gas Tube Frequency Dividers Project

I can't quite see what it's doing. I can see how 
you could have a neon relaxation oscillator 
with an additional charge *thump* from another 
oscillator. If the period of the neon osc is 
longer, then it is likely to trigger during one 
of the *thumps*. Kind of a soft sync. And that 
would be a division of the *thumping oscillator*.

One of the things I want to try, because 
it's time for a ...

NEON REVIVAL

Later,
Toby

Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
> "neon dividers" ?  Is this a neon bulb flipflop that does the
> divide by two thing ?  I'd _love_ to see a schematic of that
> part!
> 
> Toby Paddock <tpaddock at seanet.com> wrote:
> >
> >Assuming that subject line makes it past 
> >the spam filters...
> >
> >Did someone post about someone who took the 
> >tone generator from an organ and put it in 
> >display box? It would have been a year or so ago.
> >
> >After the interesting organ talk lately, I took 
> >a look inside my old Lowery LSL tube organ. 
> >The neon dividers light up when you play it. 
> >Cool. I was thinking that in an alternate 
> >universe - where I had much more time, energy, 
> >focus, brains, and I could actually play 
> >keyboard - I would put the hang the tone chassis 
> >in a plexiglass box seperate from the keyboards.
> >
> >Then later that started sounding familiar, like I 
> >had heard that somewhere. Like probably here.
> >
> >?
> >
> >Later,
> >Toby
> >Paddock
> >
>