VFD

In your experience do the Chinese units fail relatively early on or do they go for say, a year or so before they crap the bed?
The two that I have had fail, failed almost immediately. And my friends who’ve had failures usually experienced them within a year. That was enough consistency to sway me away from them.

I should specify that these were just cheap no-name Chinese VFDs from eBay. Not the model mentioned earlier sold on Amazon.