The New Hotness

The WS2812 under the 5U4GB full-wave rectifier tube went into pinball panic mode:

It’s been running more-or-less continuously since late 2016, so call it

Because I’d be crazy to replace it with another likely-to-fail WS2812, I had to remove both of them before installing SK6812 RGBW LEDs and updating the Arduino Nano.

Unfortunately, I did a really good job of bonding the side light to the tube with epoxy:

The last tube manufacturing step involved flashing the getter onto the tube envelope, so as to remove the last vestige of air. Admitting air oxidizes the getter:

It was such a pretty tube, too …