"tuning Eye"

[gyusher]

Who remembers these???

 

[mhardy6647]

Remember?

There are several pieces of equipment at Casa Hardy that use 'em, including the Sherwood-S3000 tuner, the EICO HF-90 tuner, and some other, more obscure pieces. Some older tape recorders used them for level setting too.

There is a European website featuring dozens of photos of electron ray (magic eye) tubes in action. I don't have the URL handy, though...

 

[boostcrazy]

does it glow brighter as you get the station locked in?:withstpd:

 

[Dave918]

Boostcrazy, The gap in the ring narrows and widens depending on signal level.

-Dave

 

[Rob]

My 1947 Magnavox combo console has one. The dark area, like a slice of a pie, closes up tighter as the signal gets stronger. The tuning eye is hard to see in this photo.

 

[gyusher]

Magnavox WOW!!

That thing is gorgeous. . . .I remember these "Tuning Eyes" on a lot of older equipment from the 50s through the 70s and even into the eightys. . .The ring tightens as you get closer to tuned. . . . .I dont know what happens if the green ring completly closes. . .Duck and cover. . !!!

 

[JoZmo]

My parents had a Magnavox console that had one of these tuning eyes. Green.
A distant memory from my childhood. Way, way back there!

 

[jerrymrc]

My father still has his Magnavox console
in the office of his shop. I think it is circa 1965. Used to watch that eye all the time.:

 

[willysan]

Beautiful!! Gorgeous!!!
What can I say?
I've been longing for one of those.
I remember my dad's old tape recorder. It had that monstrous green eye that oponed up when I raised my voice.
How come we lost it?

By the way, does someone remember the nixies?

 

[WhiteSE]

This thread already screwed with my psychi...I had like usual.. aweird dream, which at the end finds me looking thru the window of a Goodwill store, and there was a Nikko unit with the "EYE"...

amazing thing the brain...

 

[gyusher]

Dont look into the eye!!!

VooDoo magic. . . . . .The eye knows all, sees all, knows if you are good or bad. . . . . . .Evil Eye. . . .

 

[mhardy6647]

Since someone mentioned Nixies...

... There are a lot of cool links and projects on the old Nixie neon display tubes. Take a look at the Nixie clock link from Gary Kaufman's page:

www.the-planet.org