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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: halogen lamps
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.165156.6670@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:51:56 GMT
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- ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern) writes:
- : On more or less the same subject, can someone tell me exactly why you
- : shouldn't touch a halogen bulb?
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- If you touch it you get finger prints on it. This results in localiased
- heating of the envelope. (due to the high temperatures these lamps run
- at). Result the envelope will crack.
-
- This is why these lamps come with a tear off wrapping, which you remove after
- insertion.
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