28 Jul
2007
28 Jul
'07
4:56 p.m.
On 7/28/07, Dave McGuire <mcguire at
neurotica.com> wrote:
Was moving into our current apartment years ago...
I was puzzled at a 2 bulb bathroom (typical kind), one was
slightly dimmer than other and flickering like mad. (my eye can see
30hz driving me nuts) So I tool bulb out to check. aha the stick on
diode disc. Yanked it. SOLVED.
ya'll should be concerned about keeping mercury and cadium out of
landfills, tell your others and also we have to take them to the
hazardous disposal that your cities/towns offers.
Cheers, Wizard
You wrote:
Dim, yellow, _flickering_ light. ;-)
Sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, my dad made a "light
dimmer" that was just a metal project box, a diode (half-wave
rectifier) and a toggle switch. Flip the switch for full brightness,
flip again for "dim". It worked fine, for what it was, but the dim
light wasn't that good to read by.
-ethan Then there were the "bulb
savers"--small discs probably containing
nothing more than a carbon resistor
I've seen products that match this description (in the US) that
contain a diode, which gets placed in series with the bulb. They
work great if you like dim yellow light.