When I was in electronics shop class in high school, 1984, each student assembled a tube audio amplifier. I still remember that the tubes used were 6U8, 6X4 and 6AQ5.
What was the point? My first year of high school was in 1984 and by then, tube electronics were gone. Leave it to the schools to be teaching vacuum tube electronics in the mid 80s!!! I always say, if it were up to academics, we'd still be using vacuum tubes. They would be better vacuum tubes, but they'd still be tubes.
THANK YOU for acknowledging the devastation of Helene. You are correct, we lost power, water and all communications for some time here in Western NC. Having no phones for a week was insane.
This is one of the coolest experiments I've seen on an NOS television. It's great to see everything happening as it runs like a normal use set. It's already outlasted my Hisense from walley mart (3 months and no sound.) What a rip off! I pulled out an early 80's Zenith from back in the day and fixed it. I've been wondering how the Packard was doing. Awesome video! My brothers and sisters in the mountains of NC are going through a rough one. Truly devistating and very sad. On such a wide scale also. Keep them in your prayers. There were a lot of people afftected, therefore the drop off for you and others on You Tube. Great work you do with these videos! I enjoy them as a former tech. You are certainly one of the best troubleshooters I have seen. Love the humor also! Cheers! 🍻
Yes, here in western North Carolina, we were without power for over a week, and cell/internet service was very bad to non-existant for longer. This is my first Shango I've seen since the hurricane. And, yes, i am one of the lucky ones...there are thousands without water and still no power (or roads/bridges)...it's that bad. Really bad.
I remember the ad copy from when transistors first came out---"last forever, never need replacing!". Time has certainly proven that wrong. And tubes lasted far longer than many give them credit for. This has been an interesting series
@@skuula IC's, yes. But I've seen tons of bad transistors over the years, especially in vintage stereo and hifi. And germanium transistors went bad often, all by themselves
I started with switching to CFLs decades ago and have been moving over to LED. I agree with Shango. The components in the circuit in the buibs aren't going to last 45 years. The LEDs themselves might, but not the electrolytic caps.
@@fredflintstone8048 Most components die from poor thermal management due to inadequate heatsinks. I bought some quality bulbs 10 years ago from our electric company at a steeply discounted price (selling bulbs is cheaper than building power plants). NONE of them have failed yet. I looked for some more recently from bulb mfg and it's no longer sold. Planned obsolescence anyone?
I actually saw an led light last 45 years when i was on an ibter-galactic flight. I was in suspended animation for exactly 45 years and when i woke up the light was still on.
When it went all firecracker in the HV cage I just knew it would do that, and your reaction sent me howling with laughter. Never change shango! On our early colour sets here in the UK that used shunt stabilisers (we used a PD500) the chassis are always festooned with massive warnings about X rays, and even interlocks. Another great video, surprising how well the CRT has held up.
When I was a little kid, I remember the TV repairman changing tubes in our color tv. I don't recall anything else. The TV developed an issue later they couldn't fix. If you could have worked on it back then, you probably could have fixed it. This is interesting, though.
In 1970 I was still watching a tube type BW set. And we were still taking our tubes to the kiosk at the grocery store to test and replace as a first option for anything that went wrong.
That vertical output tube said please let me stay with my friends. i'll work it out. then it self healed itself. it doesn't want to leave its home just yet.
Lady on the Home Shopping Channel raving about 'the wet brush'. I wonder if an element of hell is for eternity being forced to watch re-runs of the Home Shopping Channel.
Don't count me, when Helene hit I was visiting my mother in Kansass and her internet sucks. My Apartment power was only out for ~16 hours as far as I could tell from there and personally I didn't have much damage when I returned. I did have to go roading to make sure my side hustle SBN station was on the air shortly after I made town. Yesterday though I was finally able to access a site at ground zero. The tower was still standing but the site was a sight. The COOP got our 480V 200A overhead back on, WAN provider was on site and a tower crew to replace some of the tower mounted last mile equipment. Just short of 23 days the station was back on the air. Enjoy the capacitors.😉
Yep. The ones with a half pound of aluminum in the base can really, really last. I got a good one from 1000bulbs about 6 years ago as well that has some serious hours on it too in an enclosed globe - "90+" brand I believe. Should've bought more but they weren't cheap. The super cheap generic and even "better" brands at stores, like GE, are unpredictable junk, and even some of those have heatsinks.
Yep, the heavy ones with finned heatsinks on the bottom last forever. Haven't had a failure in 10 years. My $100 Costco front door fixture failed in 3 yrs. Almost no paste under the element to a thin aluminum plate. Replaced and LED element, repasted with good paste, added huge heatsink for both LEDs and regulator. 1 year in, so far so good. Barely gets above ambient when lit.
I don't think the Asheville, NC, area has ever seen anything like this, at least not recently. I was in the area in the mid-90s visiting relatives. When we finally managed to hear from my uncle, he had no utilities other than cell service. Just think. Even those fancy whole-house generators were useless for lots of people because the natural gas stopped working.
Great stuff, as always! Would you take just a short time and show or just describe your method of testing those old Sangamo/Sprague mica RF caps that you had drying on the transformer? I've got a few handfuls of them, and it's hard to measure any leakage at all on mine. Thanks!
It probably would not have needed 3 service calls in a year when it was new. This was NOS, not factory new. Age takes its toll on electronics even when not in use.
40 cents a kilowatt? Wow! We're around 15 a kw. Concerning this set: It'll be a sad day when it gives up. 😅 Concerning those hurricanes: There's some who believe that they're being steered, evidence is evidence.
Geez eh? Even up here in Soviet Canuckistan, the great white north, in my city we are paying 18 cents per kWh on peak use hours and about 9 cents per kWh off-peak hours.
I have a Time of use Meter in Southern Wisconsin and my rate is 0.175 for on peak and 0.06 for off peak. On Peak is 7:00am - 7:00 PM - Off Peak is 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM. My solar grid tied system cancels out my power usage during the spring and fall months.
GEIGER counter see video of test YT channel : Project 326 Title : "DON'T buy a Geiger counter, until you see this... " Great Channel like Shango he does not take prisoners ! .
You tube is going to copyright itself into oblivion, Radiotvphononut had to kill his music channel which really bummed me out, not hearing some of his tunes in quite a long time. Even you are afraid of getting a strike on your videos.
formula 1 nowadays crushes anybody who uploads old or full races on YT nowadays what are they trying to erase old F1 so hard that no one will remember them except through packaged what we prefer you watch highlights.
@Shango066 I bet the high voltage pulses are messing with the electronics. Not to long ago I was on my cell phone with my father and I was working on the high voltage on my RCA set. I arched the high voltage for a second and it knocked out the cell phone.then I tested it and could do it multiple times.
Speaking of something coming back to life, I've got a cold cathode fluorescent T12 light that went dim and had discoloration on the ends. I kept using it like that and about a year and a half later it started to come back to full brilliance. Still working a few months now. Explain that to me. Lol
First off, heart goes out to the flood-victims; can't imagine having your whole life washed away or covered in mud! I keep hearing horror-stories of thousands missing; wonder if there is a way you could calculate base on census and your metrics, how many people that is? On tubes: I really think that if manufactured and run within spec, that they last incredibly long. I have so much tube equipment and seldom ever have to replace one! On life-testing the Packard-Bell: I agree, it has to take a failure that would warrant a customer justifying calling a service tech. Also, could some of the smearing/focus be related to frequency response (IF's?), such that degradation in these circuits contributes?
My neighbor has one of those cheap WalMart cheapest of the cheap TVs and watches it constantly for over 10 years… my advice on never buying cheap electronics was ignored with no consequences it seems…
When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought you were describing an interview with a political individual that cackles. You would have also applied the dim bulb test.
It would be interesting to see how the picture looks with 30kv.... for a moment I thought you were going to do that but in fact you meant to watch the voltage on the HV probe.
I can understand the concern with the vacuum tubes, since a lot of the things like capacitors, resistors and similar devices have modern equivalents available. Some vacuum tubes might be harder to source.
The availability, and for newcomers who don't yet know of passive electronic failures, or those with no interest in the electronic repairs, tubes are as simple as unplug and plug in. It's like audio and guitar guys who annoyingly obsess over trying different 12AX7s or power tube brands for different tone, then placebo themselves into believing a $200 Mullard is better.
In my experience older more expensive LED bulbs with SMPS last longer than newer with a linear ballast current limiter. This classmate TV performs if not better than me at least not worst. I'm not NOS, though.
I calculate my electric costs and consumption in a very easy way but it's not accurate in exact cost per kWh. I divide the total bill by the number of kWh. So the more I use the lower the cost per kWh since some of the costs on the bill are fixed costs. I'm in Arizona and my costs range from 19 to 25 cents per kWh. The annual average so far this year is almost 22 cents. I've been tracking the costs over the last nine years and the average cost per year has been trending up ~ one cent per kWh a year every year. We also have the time of use costs which began a few years ago.
As for the verticle tube, is there a possibility that the supporting circuitry around the tube is failing then coming back? possibly a reforming cap? Seems odd to me as well the tube would get any better.
@@roberts.3712 I put my name on the list. Can't believe how empty my mailbox is now...must be getting burnt. So many have gone to solar they're losing money, apparently.
@@Kinann I have a small rooftop solar here but in the winter it is almost worthless. We have a couple of nuke pants here and different politics I guess.
Why LEDs would not last long? To high temperature. Why temperature is so high. Not enought cooling capacity and current is to high. Why there is not enought cooling capacity and curennt is soo high. Aluminum cost money, and more leds cost money. Can it last longer? Of course check "Dubai Lamp".
Matthew 24:7. For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. Mathew 24:8 Matthew 24:8 All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.
You're loosing it with your videos, just get on with what you're supposed to be doing instead of talking a load of TOSH all the time. This video could have taken about 10 minutes. I used to enjoy watching your informative videos but not now.
seems to hold up well so far, and the image quality is still good. My mother told me that back then they needed a new picture tube every year. I believe that the technicians often adjusted the tv in such a way that they wore out the tubes more quickly (they made a lot of money by replacing them) 🤔📺
As for the LED light bulbs, I have modified one that should work for a very very long time (it uses a capassetive dropper) and it is running the LEDs with a low voltage 💡
When I was in electronics shop class in high school, 1984, each student assembled a tube audio amplifier. I still remember that the tubes used were 6U8, 6X4 and 6AQ5.
What was the point? My first year of high school was in 1984 and by then, tube electronics were gone.
Leave it to the schools to be teaching vacuum tube electronics in the mid 80s!!!
I always say, if it were up to academics, we'd still be using vacuum tubes. They would be better vacuum tubes, but they'd still be tubes.
Haha we made (optional course, secondary school) an 1W class B audio amp with BC327/337.
THANK YOU for acknowledging the devastation of Helene. You are correct, we lost power, water and all communications for some time here in Western NC. Having no phones for a week was insane.
This is one of the coolest experiments I've seen on an NOS television.
It's great to see everything happening as it runs like a normal use set.
It's already outlasted my Hisense from walley mart (3 months and no sound.)
What a rip off! I pulled out an early 80's Zenith from back in the day and fixed it.
I've been wondering how the Packard was doing. Awesome video!
My brothers and sisters in the mountains of NC are going through a rough one.
Truly devistating and very sad. On such a wide scale also. Keep them in your
prayers. There were a lot of people afftected, therefore the drop off for you
and others on You Tube. Great work you do with these videos! I enjoy them
as a former tech. You are certainly one of the best troubleshooters I
have seen. Love the humor also! Cheers! 🍻
2 years just gone by like that
Yes, here in western North Carolina, we were without power for over a week, and cell/internet service was very bad to non-existant for longer. This is my first Shango I've seen since the hurricane. And, yes, i am one of the lucky ones...there are thousands without water and still no power (or roads/bridges)...it's that bad. Really bad.
Take care!
I remember the ad copy from when transistors first came out---"last forever, never need replacing!". Time has certainly proven that wrong. And tubes lasted far longer than many give them credit for. This has been an interesting series
I'm thoroughly impressed with transistor and IC reliability the last decades.. only a few go bad by themselves.
@@skuula IC's, yes. But I've seen tons of bad transistors over the years, especially in vintage stereo and hifi. And germanium transistors went bad often, all by themselves
I got plasma tv with 45k hours and its still as good as new. Good quality panasonic.
I have a 2003 Pioneer 50 Inch plasma in the basement hat still works
@@eaglevision993 those were expensive, quality sets.
I switched my house over to LED bulbs 10 years ago. About a third have been replaced.
I started with switching to CFLs decades ago and have been moving over to LED. I agree with Shango. The components in the circuit in the buibs aren't going to last 45 years. The LEDs themselves might, but not the electrolytic caps.
@@fredflintstone8048 Most components die from poor thermal management due to inadequate heatsinks.
I bought some quality bulbs 10 years ago from our electric company at a steeply discounted price (selling bulbs is cheaper than building power plants).
NONE of them have failed yet.
I looked for some more recently from bulb mfg and it's no longer sold.
Planned obsolescence anyone?
You found some good ones!
Honestly this Packard Bell set has performed admirably. Especially since all the capacitors are origonal.
What’s scary is the people who watch these infomercials are also allowed to vote. Smh
Yeah and predictably, they vote for trump. That's even scarier. Yeah, tariffs are a *great* idea!
….and breed. Scary indeed.
Well, with the choices we have this year… how much does it matter
Agree entirely. There should be an intelligence test required before people can vote...or breed.
Yeah and predictably, they vote for trump. That's even scarier. Yeah, tariffs are a great idea!
I actually saw an led light last 45 years when i was on an ibter-galactic flight. I was in suspended animation for exactly 45 years and when i woke up the light was still on.
I live in Bradenton Florida. I saw the eye of Milton. We are bruised but not down and out. We are seasoned and prepared.
When it went all firecracker in the HV cage I just knew it would do that, and your reaction sent me howling with laughter. Never change shango!
On our early colour sets here in the UK that used shunt stabilisers (we used a PD500) the chassis are always festooned with massive warnings about X rays, and even interlocks.
Another great video, surprising how well the CRT has held up.
Yup, it's not the LEDs, it's EVERY OTHER COMPONENT AROUND THEM that fails.
Due to poor heat management.
When I was a little kid, I remember the TV repairman changing tubes in our color tv. I don't recall anything else. The TV developed an issue later they couldn't fix. If you could have worked on it back then, you probably could have fixed it. This is interesting, though.
In 1970 I was still watching a tube type BW set. And we were still taking our tubes to the kiosk at the grocery store to test and replace as a first option for anything that went wrong.
That vertical output tube said please let me stay with my friends. i'll work it out. then it self healed itself. it doesn't want to leave its home just yet.
Most interesting tube discussion. Repaired well. Value for money set.
Really cool video! Thanks for the detail and insight
Is it just me or is it crazy that me been in this for 2 years!! WOW
WoopWoop! What a trooper.
Lady on the Home Shopping Channel raving about 'the wet brush'. I wonder if an element of hell is for eternity being forced to watch re-runs of the Home Shopping Channel.
Longitudinal research with Shango!❤
Don't count me, when Helene hit I was visiting my mother in Kansass and her internet sucks.
My Apartment power was only out for ~16 hours as far as I could tell from there and personally I didn't have much damage when I returned.
I did have to go roading to make sure my side hustle SBN station was on the air shortly after I made town.
Yesterday though I was finally able to access a site at ground zero. The tower was still standing but the site was a sight. The COOP got our 480V 200A overhead back on, WAN provider was on site and a tower crew to replace some of the tower mounted last mile equipment. Just short of 23 days the station was back on the air.
Enjoy the capacitors.😉
I grew up in Houston in the 70's and we didn't have AC either. But our humidity is a high MFer, so good luck with no AC!
Thanks!
It's about 12 to 13 cent per kw/hr here in Cincinnati, that includes generation rate and transport rate.
The LED bulbs which were made by Osram in early days and weight a lot are still going. Newer are mostly gone within a few years.
Yep. The ones with a half pound of aluminum in the base can really, really last. I got a good one from 1000bulbs about 6 years ago as well that has some serious hours on it too in an enclosed globe - "90+" brand I believe. Should've bought more but they weren't cheap.
The super cheap generic and even "better" brands at stores, like GE, are unpredictable junk, and even some of those have heatsinks.
Yep, the heavy ones with finned heatsinks on the bottom last forever. Haven't had a failure in 10 years.
My $100 Costco front door fixture failed in 3 yrs. Almost no paste under the element to a thin aluminum plate. Replaced and LED element, repasted with good paste, added huge heatsink for both LEDs and regulator. 1 year in, so far so good. Barely gets above ambient when lit.
Make incandescents great again !
The only LEDs that last 45 years is the FM stereo LED.
I don't think the Asheville, NC, area has ever seen anything like this, at least not recently. I was in the area in the mid-90s visiting relatives. When we finally managed to hear from my uncle, he had no utilities other than cell service. Just think. Even those fancy whole-house generators were useless for lots of people because the natural gas stopped working.
You should do videos reviewing tv commercials I would watch
I have a Packard Smell PC that works great.
Great stuff, as always! Would you take just a short time and show or just describe your method of testing those old Sangamo/Sprague mica RF caps that you had drying on the transformer? I've got a few handfuls of them, and it's hard to measure any leakage at all on mine. Thanks!
If it's a consolation, here in Sweden a KWh costs $0.25 which we here still consider expensive. The Ukraine war really pushed up energy prices.
It probably would not have needed 3 service calls in a year when it was new. This was NOS, not factory new. Age takes its toll on electronics even when not in use.
In Germany I pay around 26 cents/kWh at the moment.
Not enough for earthquake insurance, but maybe enough for fries.🍟
40 cents a kilowatt? Wow! We're around 15 a kw. Concerning this set: It'll be a sad day when it gives up. 😅
Concerning those hurricanes: There's some who believe that they're being steered, evidence is evidence.
Geez eh? Even up here in Soviet Canuckistan, the great white north, in my city we are paying 18 cents per kWh on peak use hours and about 9 cents per kWh off-peak hours.
The only thing being steered is your weak mind.
I have a Time of use Meter in Southern Wisconsin and my rate is 0.175 for on peak and 0.06 for off peak. On Peak is 7:00am - 7:00 PM - Off Peak is 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM. My solar grid tied system cancels out my power usage during the spring and fall months.
GEIGER counter see video of test YT channel : Project 326 Title : "DON'T buy a Geiger counter, until you see this... "
Great Channel like Shango he does not take prisoners ! .
Thanks for the update. I was thinking about this test set last week. How's the storage shed coming?
You tube is going to copyright itself into oblivion, Radiotvphononut had to kill his music channel which really bummed me out, not hearing some of his tunes in quite a long time. Even you are afraid of getting a strike on your videos.
formula 1 nowadays crushes anybody who uploads old or full races on YT nowadays what are they trying to erase old F1 so hard that no one will remember them except through packaged what we prefer you watch highlights.
Replacing carbon resistors with metal film is the best idea ever, carbon resistors drift like mad with temperature changes
I always modify led bulbs to run at lower current they really last forever that way
Light blub with screw in technology:(
@Shango066 I bet the high voltage pulses are messing with the electronics. Not to long ago I was on my cell phone with my father and I was working on the high voltage on my RCA set. I arched the high voltage for a second and it knocked out the cell phone.then I tested it and could do it multiple times.
NICE!!! I was wondering how this set was doing!
Better than a new set I got about same day that’s scrap now.
The set came in a box of 10
🤣
4 Chinese LED lights bulbs for $100, am I seeing that correctly?
The price was $17.99. They look like Philips knock offs though
I want to see the full tv AD for that stupid light bulb now. How crazy can it be
I have a suspicion that its not the tube, but a resistor or cap. I have never seen a tube come back from the dead like that. Great video. Strange.
Why did changing it Fix the problem. I was sort of thinking the same thing but
Speaking of something coming back to life, I've got a cold cathode fluorescent T12 light that went dim and had discoloration on the ends. I kept using it like that and about a year and a half later it started to come back to full brilliance. Still working a few months now. Explain that to me. Lol
My bulb is 42 years old, and She sold me the bulb😃
First off, heart goes out to the flood-victims; can't imagine having your whole life washed away or covered in mud!
I keep hearing horror-stories of thousands missing; wonder if there is a way you could calculate base on census and your metrics, how many people that is?
On tubes: I really think that if manufactured and run within spec, that they last incredibly long. I have so much tube equipment and seldom ever have to replace one!
On life-testing the Packard-Bell: I agree, it has to take a failure that would warrant a customer justifying calling a service tech.
Also, could some of the smearing/focus be related to frequency response (IF's?), such that degradation in these circuits contributes?
Bet this TV will last longer than that 45-year LED light bulb.
Thing has 12k hours Try that with your new cheap imported LED sets
You will be doing a 10 year update.
I think the tube type makes a difference in the life cycle
I’ve have a led set from 2008 that’s been on 24 hours a day and is still running it’s a Sony though so that’s probably why
My neighbor has one of those cheap WalMart cheapest of the cheap TVs and watches it constantly for over 10 years… my advice on never buying cheap electronics was ignored with no consequences it seems…
@@dirkdiggler9379 LED TV from 2008? And running 24/7 since 2008? That sounds pretty incredible, it's 140.000 hours! Can you tell us the model number?
LED house bulbs in uk last 3 to 6 months depending on use . Shops don't sell incandescent now because of government legislation
Philips last much longer. I’ve had some that have been going strong for 7 years 24 hours a day
Dont buy the cheapest ones. If you buy Philips or Osram, 5 years is quite standard.
Shango time !
When I first saw the thumbnail, I thought you were describing an interview with a political individual that cackles. You would have also applied the dim bulb test.
It would be interesting to see how the picture looks with 30kv.... for a moment I thought you were going to do that but in fact you meant to watch the voltage on the HV probe.
Screw it in and she'll turn on automatically.
20:42 ... Terminator had been summoned.
1:04:20 I have the same experience with car batteries. One week it tests 70% the next week its suddenly dead. I have never had one slowly fail.
I can understand the concern with the vacuum tubes, since a lot of the things like capacitors, resistors and similar devices have modern equivalents available. Some vacuum tubes might be harder to source.
It's all about the voltage
The availability, and for newcomers who don't yet know of passive electronic failures, or those with no interest in the electronic repairs, tubes are as simple as unplug and plug in.
It's like audio and guitar guys who annoyingly obsess over trying different 12AX7s or power tube brands for different tone, then placebo themselves into believing a $200 Mullard is better.
i am guessing there has never ever been even a bad tube ever thrown out
In my experience older more expensive LED bulbs with SMPS last longer than newer with a linear ballast current limiter.
This classmate TV performs if not better than me at least not worst. I'm not NOS, though.
I calculate my electric costs and consumption in a very easy way but it's not accurate in exact cost per kWh. I divide the total bill by the number of kWh. So the more I use the lower the cost per kWh since some of the costs on the bill are fixed costs.
I'm in Arizona and my costs range from 19 to 25 cents per kWh. The annual average so far this year is almost 22 cents. I've been tracking the costs over the last nine years and the average cost per year has been trending up ~ one cent per kWh a year every year.
We also have the time of use costs which began a few years ago.
The multivibrator is a bit of a trip. LOL.
As for the verticle tube, is there a possibility that the supporting circuitry around the tube is failing then coming back? possibly a reforming cap? Seems odd to me as well the tube would get any better.
Tv is better than those leds lol
Many cheap LED bulbs don't last any longer than the incandescent bulbs.
Do you think home shopping network is just Hell for salespeople that didn't live a righteous, capitalistic life?
11000 hours in 2 years is over 15 h per day. Who looks so much TV every day? 🤔
is it the camera the text is still blurry like the focus is off?
Forty cents a kilowatt-hour.....good grief.
I pay 45 cents, highest in USA.
@@Kinann 13 cents here in the Midwest...maybe they use junk mail for fuel😀
@@roberts.3712 I put my name on the list. Can't believe how empty my mailbox is now...must be getting burnt. So many have gone to solar they're losing money, apparently.
@@Kinann I have a small rooftop solar here but in the winter it is almost worthless. We have a couple of nuke pants here and different politics I guess.
I have bulbs just like them. Mine started flickering I suppose it was the capacitors.
Could that self-healing tube have simply had cruddy pins that got cleaned when you removed it from the socket(s) ?
A light bulb?! Screw it!
how many HSN ladies does it take to engage an LED replacement bulb? ..are you living Skyrizi? down with Reballsus?
I want Skyrizi and Xylazine and a LED light bulb with 45 year guarantee
Thumbnail creeps me out every time I see it😳
what about capacitors ? i suspect them to cause at least some blurryness
I heard directv was getting rid of standard definition
they will last about the same as an incandesen bulb and cost more.
Proverbs 13:20 The one walking with the wise will become wise, But the one who has dealings with the stupid will fare badly.
oui-bees
They just go on and on and on, relentless until they sell enough I guess, dreadful.
I love seeing the TVs operate but I know we're always going to have to hear the pea-brain HSN hosts as a result, which I have to mute
a led bulb that last 45 years lol the name brand led bulbs cant seem to last a few months to a year
Hi, i am from switzerland - europe. I hope this is not the TV content for an average american ;-)
Still paying for cable. I bet your paying alot for it
Why LEDs would not last long? To high temperature. Why temperature is so high. Not enought cooling capacity and current is to high. Why there is not enought cooling capacity and curennt is soo high. Aluminum cost money, and more leds cost money. Can it last longer? Of course check "Dubai Lamp".
Proverbs 1:19 These are the ways of those seeking dishonest profit, Which will take away the life of those who obtain it.
Roach motel
Matthew 24:7. For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another. Mathew 24:8
Matthew 24:8
All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.
You're loosing it with your videos, just get on with what you're supposed to be doing instead of talking a load of TOSH all the time. This video could have taken about 10 minutes. I used to enjoy watching your informative videos but not now.
seems to hold up well so far, and the image quality is still good.
My mother told me that back then they needed a new picture tube every year.
I believe that the technicians often adjusted the tv in such a way that they wore out the tubes more quickly (they made a lot of money by replacing them) 🤔📺
As for the LED light bulbs, I have modified one that should work for a very very long time (it uses a capassetive dropper) and it is running the LEDs with a low voltage 💡
Thanks!