The Siren Board

Hey Robert,

Years back, I had two of the flower light bulbs, one I remember one being a purple orchid, and I forget the other. I built a base with two sockets and a piece of wood, and gave it to a girlfriend.

I also had a Capacitor checker with the "Green Eye" tube in it. I think my mom threw it away, because it mysteriously disappeared.

Yes, we certainly have strayed. Seems always the case.
Should we take this to another subject?

Thanks, Daniel, for the "Magic Eye" which I could not recall.
They were fun.
Do I recall, as a little child, thathey became hoto the touch!
The top of the tube was directly exposed.

So Elliot, do you know how that pink flower had green glowing stems
and leaves all from the same electrodes?

Yes, for my girlfriend I installed one on a little three sided mirror, which hangs in a corner.
Then we broke up and I have never seen one since.

Are they still being made?

Thanks, Daniel, for the "Magic Eye" which I could not recall.
They were fun.
Do I recall, as a little child, thathey became hoto the touch!
The top of the tube was directly exposed.

I don't remember them, as I was born in 1971 and all I remember was the annoying interruption of the song playing on the 8-track, phonographs, phones with bells, TVs with tubes, stores with tube testers, people smoking in the supermarket, teacher's aides yelling at us in Italian, Jimmy Carter (still an idiot), and my father's advice on how one should always remove the smog pump from their car and save it in case they have to sell it. And, of course, my town's air horns, which were shut off in 1992.

Daniel wrote:I don't remember [Magic Eye tubes in radios], as I was born in 1971

Didn't you have one on a capacitance tester?

Daniel wrote:and all I remember was the annoying interruption of the song playing on the 8-track,

never had nor heard one. I listened to Helmut Walcha on Deutsche Grammaphone "Archive" records.

Daniel wrote:phonographs, phones with bells, TVs with tubes, stores with tube testers, people smoking in the supermarket,

don't recall smokers in supermarkets in Colorado.

Daniel wrote:teacher's aides yelling at us in Italian, Jimmy Carter (still an idiot),

wonderful, kind, thoughtful man, but was not the best President.

Daniel wrote:and my father's advice on how one should always remove the smog pump from their car and save it in case they have to sell it.

Why remove it? To increase fuel mileage? Illegal, isn't it?

Daniel wrote:And, of course, my town's air horns, which were shut off in 1992.

Thanks to pagers. But hope they kepthem in operating condition.

Daniel wrote:Methinks this thread hath strayed far from sirens.

Methinks alike... Here's where the vacuum tube branch of this thread can be picked up on:

http://audiokarma.org/forums/index.php? ... 223a034656&

AudioKarma.org. This site is a very similar discussion board to ours here, but deals in all types of vintage electronics. Also has antique TV and radio topics, and vacuum tube audio, and so on. My name there is the same as here, and I hang out in the four vintage TV-related categories.

Charles

kx250rider wrote:

Daniel wrote:Methinks this thread hath strayed far from sirens.

Methinks alike... Here's where the vacuum tube branch of this thread can be picked up on:

My name there is the same as here, and I hang out in the four vintage TV-related categories.

Charles

Thanks Charles.

I registered. Wrote that you referred me.
Hope to read you all there.
Robert -XVII

I wasnt sure how the "flower bulbs" worked, but I assumed there was some UV content that reacted with a coating that the leaves were doped with. They were quite colorful. Had no idea what gases were used. I bought mine at Spencer Gifts.

Excellent Elliot!

You are exactly right.
Invisible UV cleverly causes the coating on the stems and leaves to fluoresce while the bare metal petals glow from the discharge.

Few others have figured that out.

But I wonder if the gas contains some mercury vapor which produces the UV.

Robert, in order to find that light question about the UV, try searching on Google for Streetlights. One website may be jimslights.com. He knows a lot about streetlighting, and may be able to help with your vapor question. And yes, let's get back to alarm clock sirens, OK?

Konky 5000 wrote:Robert, in order to find that light question about the UV, try searching on Google for Streetlights. One website may be jimslights.com. He knows a lot about streetlighting, and may be able to help with your vapor question. And yes, let's get back to alarm clock sirens, OK? :x

What alarm siren question?

Oh, THAT alarm clock siren question!

What was the question?

My answer: 2t22

Sorry for straying.

Robert the - XVI