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Please excuse me jumping into your thread. As a long time lurker, with little technical expertise, but an abiding interest in early color sets, I enjoy reading about your adventures with dirty tuners, fried coils and accidental zaps of HV.
I spent nearly 30 years in the film and television business and was transfering film to video in the mid-70's on an RCA film chain at Compact Video in Burbank that used a 21" roundie for a monitor.
We always viewed color sets in dim rooms. So dim, you needed small lamps to read and write notes. This was true on film chains, with flying spot scanners, when editing, and when I was ending my work life, when I did high def transfers of 35 mm lo con reversals and color correction of 2K digital film files to HD. CRT color sets (and I believe plasma also) are best seen in dim, diffuse light, almost like a movie theater. At least that is what I was taught, and my eyes told me.
And as far as I know, no one ever went blind watching those sets.
If this sounds preachy, please excuse me, but that was my experience.
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