Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
by tzs on Monday May 24, 2021 @10:46AM
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Vacuum tubes have other failure modes besides the filament burning out, but the filament burning out was by far the most common.
A tube might have a filament life of many thousands of hours, but a TV might have a dozen or so tubes so the odds were highest for filament burnout when your TV suddenly stopped working.
A tube might have a filament life of many thousands of hours, but a TV might have a dozen or so tubes so the odds were highest for filament burnout when your TV suddenly stopped working.