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Article #149Re: Re: custom lighting systems
From: Frank Ball
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 23:17
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 23:17
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*In rec.bicycles, davevh@microsoft.com (Dave Van Horn) writes: * * Frank Ball writes: * * >This is the low beam from a car with four rectangular headlights. * >The light is rated for about 200 hours at 14 volts. * * I find that hard to believe. A friend's car has the headlights * set up to stay on all the time (standard in Canada? Or just Canadian * Volvos?) At an average speed of, say, 30 mph, a 200 hour life would * have his headlights burning out after 6,000 miles, on average. That's * about six months. I'm quite sure he doesn't replace his headlights * twice a year. Besides, I saw a GE catalog that gave a rated life * of 3,000 hrs on the lo beam and 500 hours on hi beam. I guess we have different versions of the GE catalog. Frank Ball 1UR-M frankb@hpsad.sad.hp.com Hewlett Packard (707) 794-4168 work, (707) 538-3693 home 1212 Valley House Drive (707) 794-3844 fax, IT175, XT350, Seca 750 Rohnert Park CA 94928-4999 KC6WUG, AMA, Dod #7566, I'm the NRA.
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From: frankb@hpsad.sad.hp.com (Frank Ball) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1992 23:17:55 GMT Subject: Re: Re: custom lighting systems Message-ID: <1510338@hpsad.sad.hp.com> Organization: HP Signal Analysis Division - Rohnert Park, CA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!scd.hp.com!hpscdm!hplextra!hpl-opus!hpnmdla!hpsad!frankb Newsgroups: rec.bicycles References: <Bw0Ix8.Mw@fc.hp.com> Lines: 21