Western Electric WE6167 in Spinner Kit

  • 12 years ago
Here is a Western Electric 6167 dekatron in the spinner kit circuit. The WE6167 has a single guide set, and is unidirectional. The count direction is set by the shape of the cathodes. Its a pain-in-the-ass tube - if the anode current drops below 1mA, it will stall, and then become 'sticky' at the stall point. To un-stick it, you need to raise the current above 1mA, and run it for a while to let the crude get burned off. For a the glorious praise showered upon Bell Labs and Western Electric, they sure didn't know how to design a dekatron tube.