Night Vision Tube longevity

[Jim Hammer]

Everyone seems to be on the filmless over the filmed tube bandwagon.
I have been told that filmless units degrade much, much faster than filmed unis.
That after a 1000 hours filmless begin to degrade much faster.
At 2000 hours degradation of filmless is quiet noticeable. But that thin film with 2000 hrs is hardly noticeable if at all.
Can anyone confirm this?

 

[tomcatmv]

Be careful with your thread titles. There are a few on here (maybe like dirty d) that you you were inquiring about dick size. But on a serious note, I don't have any personal experience but I asked a bud who does and he had no input either.

 

[TheHorta]

Prior to advent of Thin-Filmed, this was true. TF was a response to poor tube longevity in unfilmed tubes.

That's no longer true, and hasn't been for quite some time. L3 has, to all practical extent, "perfected" filmless tube manufacturing. There is relatively little practical difference between modern Thin-Filmed and Unfilmed tubes when it comes to life expectancy.

In all likelihood, you're hearing that ol' diatribe from a vendor who has a supply of TF tubes and wants to make a sale.

 

[Victor-TNVC]

Prior to advent of Thin-Filmed, this was true. TF was a response to poor tube longevity in unfilmed tubes.

That's no longer true, and hasn't been for quite some time. L3 has, to all practical extent, "perfected" filmless tube manufacturing. There is relatively little practical difference between modern Thin-Filmed and Unfilmed tubes when it comes to life expectancy.

In all likelihood, you're hearing that ol' diatribe from a vendor who has a supply of TF tubes and wants to make a sale.

This past Shot Show (which was the Covid Shit Show), this rumor was alive and well from a few selected folks. First we heard it was after 500hrs, now at least it's up to 1000.

 

[WhereNow&How]

This past Shot Show (which was the Covid Shit Show), this rumor was alive and well from a few selected folks. First we heard it was after 500hrs, now at least it's up to 1000.

See they all wrong. It really starts at 666.666 hours.