My 8020 meter had the disease. The company I worked for stocked displays for
8020's because they failed so often.
The initial display lasted 4 years. The one that replaced it has lasted
15...
Brian P. Huber
> Reminds me of a situation here at Fluke. Our premier DC
> calibrator (5440)
> was initially produced with an LCD display. Public
> perception drove the
> company to 'update' it with a gas fluorescent one, because
> the customer
> perception was that the 'green light up display' was more professional
> looking. MTBF on the GF display is something like 100,000
> hours, and the GF
> display is something like an order of magnitude noisier than
> the LCD one (of
> some concern on a DC standard, one would think!). We've
> several GF display
> units here with such diminished brightness to be virtually
> unusable, while
> the 'cheap looking' LCD ones keep on plugging along. Don't
> know that I've
> seen a single LCD unit with the dreaded fade/bleed disease.
>
> 'The customer is ALWAYS right...'
>
> Jim
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