Lightbulb police? (was RE: Anyone off to VCF-UK)

5 Jun 2010

...
  =A0Sadly they
don't make them like that any
 more.  
 If you have ever used an old light bulb, your opinion might be wildly diffe=
 rent. 
It's very easy to make a filament bulb last a very long time -- you just 
under-run it. I would guess if you connected a 230V bulb to 110V, it 
would give off _some_ light (not much, but you would see it glow), and it 
would continue to do so for a very long time.

The downside, of course, is that the efficiency is very low. So to get 
enough light to see by, you have to pay for a lot more electrical energy.

-tony

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Lightbulb police? (was RE: Anyone off to VCF-UK)