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Article #4498Re: florescents don't like cold!
From: Wolfgang Rupprecht
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 1990 01:51
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 1990 01:51
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In article <29716@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.amd.com () writes: >I'd been having a problem with the lights in my garage not working >too well this winter at night. I just got some information from >the GE Lighting Center and they say some new energy efficient >tubes need to be at least 60 F. Some ballasts have this requirement >too. Phil, why not wrap some nichrome around those bulbs and heat them up? Rumor has it that you can even put a glass jacket around those wires and get light from them directly. ;-) -wolfgang Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) TEL: (703) 768-2640 UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang Address: Box 6524, Alexandria, VA 22306-0524
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,misc.consumers.house Subject: Re: florescents don't like cold! Message-ID: <1990Apr7.015150.19168@athena.mit.edu> Date: 7 Apr 90 01:51:50 GMT References: <29716@amdcad.AMD.COM> Sender: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) Reply-To: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht) Organization: Freelance Software Consultant, Washington DC Lines: 16