I think there are two separate issues to consider:
1. Cesium depletion, which only occurs when the tube is operating with
cesium oven on, and high voltage at the other end; and
2. Tube vacuum and other physical aspects that may deteriorate over
time, whether or not the tube is operating. The routine ion pumping
helps keep the vacuum up in storage, but is not as effective as the
continuous pumping that occurs during operation.
This is guesswork, but I suspect the warranty period was based on (1),
which is why it is shorter on the high-performance tubes, which deplete
cesium more rapidly. There may also have been an assumption that not
many customers were buying Cs standards and putting them in storage.
John
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On 9/29/2016 1:16 PM, Ruslan Nabioullin wrote:
On 09/29/2016 01:03 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
2) How long on average is the tube likely to be useful.
So you are implying that the package life is depleted at a roughly equal
rate regardless of whether the package is fully operating, has just the
pump operating, or is completely shut off?
-Ruslan
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