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Originally Posted by kf4rca
We got between 4 and 5 years out of a tube. And that was in 24/7 operation. Since there are 8760 hours in a year, I figure that about 35,000 hours or so.
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Nice. So I have basically doubled that on the CRT thats in my "nightly watcher"
It's good to have a baseline. I know that projection CRTs last far less time, I have had to retube an RPTV once.
Edit: My grandmother had one of the last RCA floor models, CTC203 I think it was. it never had any electrical faults, but back in 2013 or so the CRT got weak, as the picture is fuzzy with bad color bleed especially on reds and greens, the sun looks like its got flames on the right side.