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- From: josh@Happy-Man.com (Joshua_Putnam)
- Subject: Re: Lamp intensity vs. lifetime (was Re: 486 CPU KOOLERS FOR SALE)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.172117.21297@Happy-Man.com>
- Reply-To: Joshua_Putnam@happy-man.com
- Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399
- References: <Bx8CA2.GF2@ns1.nodak.edu> <Bx93z4.n2B@cs.dal.ca> <1992Nov16.164101.20150@bnr.ca> <BxvICz.rs@javelin.sim.es.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:21:17 GMT
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- In <BxvICz.rs@javelin.sim.es.com> rspeirs@javelin.sim.es.com (Ron Speirs) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov16.164101.20150@bnr.ca> mwandel@bnr.ca (Markus Wandel) writes:
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- >>Lamp dimmers cause
- >>light bulbs to buzz, surely not a good thing for a fragile, overheated
- >>filament you are trying to extend the life of. The diode approach also
- >>messes with the AC waveform.
- >>
- >You are right about lamps dimmers causing lamps to buzz. This is because
- >the dimmer chops up the waveform (I won't go into details here). Perhaps
- >someone else would have some data comparing lamp life on a non-linear
- >waveform with lamp life on a pure sinusoid.
-
- I don't have any data, but I have a dimmer that doesn't make
- lamps buzz. Actually, I have two of them. One is a big old
- rheostatic dimmer that just adds resistance to dim the
- light. The other is a Variac transformer that converts my
- 120v AC to anything from 0v to 135v. The rheostat is less
- expensive, smaller, and lighter, but puts out quite a bit of
- heat since it is essentially burning up the excess power.
-
- Electronic dimmers may be smaller, cheaper, and much more
- efficient, but if you care about hum, the old pre-electronic
- methods work better.
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