29 Jul
2007
29 Jul
'07
11:55 a.m.
On Saturday 28 July 2007 23:10, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 7/28/07, Dave McGuire <mcguire at
neurotica.com> wrote:
I remember building one of those...
It was one of the first practical applications I found for those center-off
toggle switches I started finding in some of the parts stores I used to
browse in. :-)
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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M Dakin
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. 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.