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NEON- Re: Hg on solid state
> >> >>What about reversing the leads from the transformer, would this
> >>change >>anything? From >>your response, i would assume no, but
> >>aparently last time Craig had the >>Migration problem, >>he reversed the
> >>HV leads and it stoped migrateing. Mabe it realzide winter >>was
> >>over....
Bertonee told me that Hg migration occurs "extremely rarely"... and that
their engineers have been unable to explain why it happens. He said
reversing usually PERMANTLY cures it. I find it interesting that this
extremely rare phenomenon has been experienced by several on neon-l
(perhaps everyone who's used a Bertonee with an Hg unit?)
Part of me believes their story. I find it hard to believe someone who
spend 10's of thousands (100's even) on production and not test a
transformer for use on Hg units.
I'll probably try the HV lead-switch thing. I'll try it exactly ONCE.
> >Without getting into any details and for fear of sounding to commercial,
> >I will only suggest you try a different brand SS-xformer. Mercury
> >migration can be avoided.
In general, I've had very good experience with electronics. I got this
Bertonee by mistake, when my distributor sent it instead of a Neonix
6000. My fatal words: "Ah, don't worry about it." I've used Neonix,
TFT, and Allanson SS's on many signs with no Hg migration problems.
-JOhn
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