Tubular is a collection of tools for repairing CRT display devices, particularly arcade video game monitors. It includes a simple searchable database of CRT information. It’s useful if you’re rejuvenating a CRT or looking for a donor tube to swap into an arcade monitor.
- Includes tube model, heater & G1 voltages, neck socket type, color/mono, swapped guns.
- Data on nearly 9,000 tubes.
- One HTML page with no external dependencies — use it even if you’re offline.
- Well-behaved, sets browser history as you’d expect.
- Mobile optimized.
It’s online right here! Start entering the tube model you’re interested in, and it should show up in the list.
To determine if two tubes are compatible
- Enter the source tube mobel into the Tube field, and tap on it in the results. The screen results will clear, and a “Compatible with” caption appears under the search dialog. Search results will now be restricted to tubes compatible with the source.
- Enter the potential donor tube model into the Tube field. Compatible tubes will appear normally at the top of the results, while matching but incompatble tubes will appear grayed out at the bottom of the results list.
KLOVers modessitt (for the idea) and channelmanic (for the data).