[Noisebridge-discuss] mercury on the table?

[Christie Dudley]

This makes me curious.  What would be the source of the mercury from a Neon
sign?  I always thought they were pretty safe.  (Well, other than from
broken glass and stuff like that.)  It's my understanding that when they
fill them with argon, they use trace amounts of mercury, that would be in
the tubes, which would only escape if you broke one, right?

Care to share this discovery with the rest of us?  Circuit hackers simply
love neon sign transformers, so I think it'd be good to have this
information disseminated.

Christie

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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Meredith made some discoveries that suggest the mercury came
>  from that neon sign...our deaths are inevitable.
>
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