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Article #8742Re: Do Halogen lamps need ballasts?
From: Dan Meyer
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 06:50
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 1990 06:50
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kilian@cray.com (Alan Kilian) writes:
>In article <1197@inews.intel.com>, bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>> Take a halogen lamp. Turn it on. Allow a drop of water to
>> fall on it. Run like hell.
>>
>> You don't need any chemistry. Temperature differences
>> are all you need to cause one of these to blow.
Take *any* incandesnant lamp. turn it on. Allow a drop of water to
fall on it. run like hell. Most incandesant lamps break under these
conditions!
>>
>> I don't think you can "soften" quartz without _extreme_
>> temperatures (thousands and thousands of K).
Agreed. isn't quartz a mineral? quite a bit different than glass?
>>
>> --Blair
>> "Billions and billions of Big Macs..."
-- Dan Meyer
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