Conserving our good CRT's

[kramden66]

perhaps you could reduce a crt to 6 volts or 5.9 or 5.8 and it will work ok but i wouldn't try going lower then 6 volts , the marginal 6 vs. 6.3 may be enough to extend it a little longer but unless your running the set for hours opon hours a day it seems useless to worry about it , it should be around for a long time , on the opposite i mentioned this in a different post that i have a crt that is on the weak side and put a brightner on it and with a resistor it runs 7 volts , thats enough to give a bright picture and it gets used 2 to 4 hours a week , no point in blasting it with more then 7 volts if its showing a good picture , other crts that i have like a 16ep4 i will eventualy experiment with reducing it to 7 volts and it it looks ok i will do that.
i do have an interesting 16GP4 that reads way high on the emissions and cutoff is good but to get a decent image it needs a brightner and the ion trap has to be pushed as far forward as possible , its touching the focus magnet , my only guess here is that it was rebuilt but not properly.

mike