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Article #4383Re: Three-legged Neon
From: Gordon LETWIN
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 18:49
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 1990 18:49
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In article <5039.25f5c9a2@cerritos.edu> yoshinaga@cerritos.edu writes: > >While repairing an electric blanket I came across a nifty device... >Physically, it looks like a 1/4w neon lamp (NE-2?), but has an >additional electrode - count-em three! I don't know what this device is, but I do know that all electric blankets - at least in the U.S. market - have thermal cutoffs sewn into them. This is a safety feature; you can feel them as "lumps" in the blanket wiring. There will be several. Is this what you have, or can you identify the thermal cutoffs as something different? In any case, as folks have pointed out, sharing the same gas is undoubtedly critical to it's operation, so you can't replace it with two neons. gordon letwin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!gordonl From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon LETWIN) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Three-legged Neon Summary: electric blankets have thermal cutoffs Message-ID: <53607@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 16 Mar 90 18:49:14 GMT References: <5039.25f5c9a2@cerritos.edu> <2371@milton.acs.washington.edu> Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 19