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Old 16th March, 2002, 05:05 AM
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Exaclty how long are these "supposed" to last?
Wondering mainly because I dont feel like turning mine off ever really
About how long do you think one would last being on basically 24/7
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Not sure how long your cold cathode tube will last, but...

Cold cathode tubes seem to vary between 6000 hours in a scanner application, up to 30,000 hours in a flourescent lighting application.

10,000 hours came up fairly often, which is a year and a bit.

As the lamp gets older, it will get dimmer, until the converter unit will not be able to maintain a current flow across the tube. Then it'll just fail to ignite, or suffer from cathode spluttering.

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Im sure it will last longer than you will want the thing! my one didnt, i broke it picking up the case when i was at spodes house.... oops.

they look awesome tho dont they?
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Old 16th March, 2002, 05:21 PM
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Im sure it will last longer than you will want the thing! my one didnt, i broke it picking up the case when i was at spodes house.... oops.

they look awesome tho dont they?
Yeah the look great
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I read where I bought mine www.bigfootcomputers.com that they last 20 years.
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Old 17th March, 2002, 07:15 AM
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I read where I bought mine www.bigfootcomputers.com that they last 20 years.
Wow nice selection, too bad thier not in the us
hmm, will have to tell my g/f to order some stuff for me, and save it until summer
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I know seveal people who buys from them in the U.S. It was someone from the U.S. that told me about the page.
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Not sure how long your cold cathode tube will last, but...

Cold cathode tubes seem to vary between 6000 hours in a scanner application, up to 30,000 hours in a flourescent lighting application.

10,000 hours came up fairly often, which is a year and a bit.

As the lamp gets older, it will get dimmer, until the converter unit will not be able to maintain a current flow across the tube. Then it'll just fail to ignite, or suffer from cathode spluttering.

AidanII
is spluttering an actual term used for cathode tubes?
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I read where I bought mine www.bigfootcomputers.com that they last 20 years.
Nice site, thanks. I was wondering that myself.
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