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Old 06-23-2015, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Jon A. View Post
I like those displays. I assume all units like that use a blue diffuser, not sure if the display itself is blue. That was the case with my malfunctioning model 229, which I still have the VFD from.
The display phosphor itself is a pale blue-green... some applications used a blue filter and some used a green filter to display the desired color. Here is a pix of the bare tube lit up.

http://bedzine.com/blog/wp-content/u...m-Clocks-1.jpg

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