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- From: mas@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov (Marc Sarrel)
- Subject: Re: Lamp intensity vs. lifetime (was Re: 486 CPU KOOLERS FOR SALE)
- In-Reply-To: josh@Happy-Man.com's message of Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:21:17 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:37:51 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.172117.21297@Happy-Man.com> josh@Happy-Man.com (Joshua_Putnam) writes:
-
- 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.
-
- I think that if you _really_ want to go overboard, run your lights off
- DC (the real stuff, not half-wave rectified) and vary the voltage. I
- seem to remember that the lights in Thomas Edison's house in Michigan
- (originally in New Jersey, but after TE died, Henry Ford moved it) are
- still burning, at least in part, because they're run off DC.
-
- This is sort of the degenerate case of the rheostat mentioned above.
- --
- Marc Sarrel "She's got a big boyfriend
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory A really big boyfriend
- mas@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov He lifts weights, he builds cars
- And he's got no sense of humor
- She's got a big, really big
- Really, really, really big boyfriend"
- -Blotto
-