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Article #8996Re: incandescent light bulb life extender
From: Seth J. Bradley
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 1990 18:14
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 1990 18:14
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In article <5297@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> jgd@Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond) writes: >I never claimed that the rectifier buttons had caused any fires and I >don't believe the other fellow did either; I simply stated that the ones >I tried in my fixtures had burned to a crisp. Just to add another data point, two of the diode buttons I tried also burned up (though 6 others worked fine for years). On one lamp I tried putting a 3 amp 400 PIV diode in series in the lamp's cord (this was a lamp which was on most of the time and which one of the buttons had burned up on). I know that this would not be UL approved, but is it inherently unsafe? -- Seth J. Bradley Address: sjb@dalek.iwarp.intel.com Or: dalek.UUCP!sjb
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!intelhf!ichips!inews!iwarp.intel.com!dalek!sjb From: sjb@dalek.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: incandescent light bulb life extender Message-ID: <160@dalek.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 90 18:14:20 GMT References: <4247@kitty.UUCP> <5297@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> Reply-To: sjb@dalek.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley) Organization: Bradley Audio Engineering, Aloha, OR Lines: 14