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I use to run weak rca color tubes at high fil. voltage and brightness all the way up
for a few days, and it would improve the tube.... I also use to hit them with a stick
on the neck lots a snapping in there... I guess it was just burning off the carbon....

If it's a weak tube, you don't have much to loose, I wouldn't go much above what a
brightner would put out though.....

When you say you run the fil. at 8V, is it just the fil. or is the tv on with the tube
having cathode current flowing...? And not P@@@ current, full brightness,
retrace lines as bright as the scan lines.... I can't see just a high fil. voltage and no
current flow as making a difference...? Heating up the cathode with current flow
is the only thing that comes close to the activating kinda thing it went through
at birth..... I figure that's how I got life outa the tubes I cooked years ago....

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