9 Nov
2011
9 Nov
'11
12:57 p.m.
What worries me more, actually, is the mandate to get
rid of
incandescent bulbs before a suitable alternative that's not pumped full
I don't beleive there is a suitable alternatic for _all_ applciations. I
liek CFLs, I was usign them long before they were commonplace. But there
are at least 4 locations where I use good old filament lamps :
1) Over my lathe (I am worried about flicker, perhaps unnecessarily)
2) In my copyling stand (You can't get a continouls spectrum from any CFL
that I've seen, so using them a a light source for colour photogrpahy is
a non-staeter)
3) In the white light source in the darkroom (CFLs have a long afterglow
that is easily bright enough to fog film. Iwant to turn of the ligth and
be able to handle light sensitive materials)
4) In the balaset unit I sue when repairing SMPSUs (you don't honestly
think that CFLs have the right V-I characteristic for this, do you?)
of mercury gas is available. I like CFLs as a light
source (well, some
And yet they mad the use fo mercury in all sorts of other things like
barometers, thermometers, switches, etc. ARGH!
of them, anyway), but I've yet to meet anyone else
who doesn't just
throw them in the bin when they're dead.
You mean you dont' tklae them apart and estract any still-good components
from the base?
-tony