Monitor Tune-Up?
(The following from: Bob Myers (myers@fc.hp.com)). Most manufacturers will quote an MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) of somewhere in the 30,000 to 60,000 hour range, EXCLUSIVE OF the CRT. The typical CRT, without an extended-life cathode, is usually good for 10,000 to 15,000 hours before it reaches half of its initial brightness. Note that, if you leave your monitor on all the time, a year is just about 8,000 hours. The only “tuneup” that a monitor should need, exclusive of adjustments needed following replacement of a failed component, would be video amplifier and/or CRT biasing adjustments to compensate for the aging of the tube. These are usually done only if you’re using the thing in an application where exact color/brightness matching is important. Regular degaussing of the unit may be needed, of course, but I’m not considering that a “tuneup” or adjustment.
