Posted by chrisv on 11/07/07 14:15

Jan Panteltje wrote:

>Bob Myers wrote:

>>CRT failures are most
>>typically the result of cathode and phosphor aging,
>
>Or bad vacuum.
>
>>so
>>rather than quote a time to absolute failure CRT lifetimes
>>are most often given in terms of "mean time to half
>>(initial) brightness." Typical MTHB numbers, unless
>>you've got a tube with a fancier cathode design (VERY
>>rare in monitors) are around 15K hours or so, depending
>>on the usage profile.
>
>My Samsung Syncmaster CRT did 6 years at 12 hours a day (makes
>25632 hours) before I retired it (it is in the attic) this
>summer, with NO noticeable decrease in anything (brightness,
>white balance, contrast, convergence etc).
>Replaced it with a SyncMaster 206BW LCD.
>But I always try to treat my monitors nice...

Me too. I don't run my CRT's at blazing-hot brightness, which. no
doubt, can go a long way toward making them last longer.

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