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Article #8811Re: incandescent light bulb life extender
From: Larry Pajakowski
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1990 18:45
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1990 18:45
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Most of the disks I've seen these days are diodes. What I'm looking for are some PTC thermisistor disks I purchased about 12 years ago from Brookstone I think. These softened the turn on transient and slightly reduced the voltage. It would take a 250W light in my garrage about 3 seconds to come up to full brightness. That same 250W light was still going strong when I moved out 2 years ago. Anybody know if these are still being manufactured? DigiKey among others carries the wire in flavor but the under the bulb is more convenient. Larry Pajakowski larry@tapa.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!att!linac!midway!gargoyle!igloo!ddsw1!tapa!larry From: larry@tapa.uucp (Larry Pajakowski) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: incandescent light bulb life extender Summary: PTC Thermistors for light turn on Message-ID: <1990Dec7.184554.12080@tapa.uucp> Date: 7 Dec 90 18:45:54 GMT References: <58335@brunix.UUCP> <1990Dec4.113531.10096@csc.canterbury.ac.nz> Reply-To: larry@.UUCP (Larry Pajakowski) Organization: Pata System Consultants Lines: 12