The PCB backside is pretty unremarkable, unless solder points and a mix of standard and bidirectional diodes are your thing: Now let’s look at the second CFL bulb: Here’s another series of shots of the ballast: This time I got all four wires headed to the fluorescent tube snipped off ...
This has resulted in my feeling depressed and angry because there are so many things about which we are lied to or misled (by “we” I mean Americans, though I am sure Canadians and Europeans have similar issues and it may be even worse elsewhere). I could go on forever about this, ...
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What Is an E12 Bulb? How to Use T12 Bulbs in a T8 Fixture E26 also doesn't mean the bulb is an old-school incandescent lightbulb. The E26 designation also goes for any compact fluorescent, or CFL, bulb that uses this size base, as well as LED bulbs that utilize the E26 base size...
What does a Lumen mean?A lumen is the amount of light a certain lamp gives off. If replacing a standard 150 Watt light bulb which gives off around 2600 Lumens, using a 42 Watt CFL or a 25 Watt LED is about the equivalent. This lowers the needed power of the light by over a ...
I have a bedside lamp that does the cool off-low-medium-high cycle thing. Or did, that is. Recently, the bulb in my lamp burnt out, so I bought a replacement. When I put it in, though, it wouldn’t cycle. I could feel the faint fuzziness of the lamp registering my body’s cap...
edited and worked on have 6500K bias lights. Regardless of whether you use a fluorescent tube light, a strip of LEDs, or an incandescent light bulb, you want one with as close to a 6500K color temperature as you can get if your goal is to maximize the quality of the on-screen imag...
What Does a Power Rating of 100W Mean? The power rating of 100 W means that the power consumed by an appliance or device is 100 joules per second (where 1 watt-hour equals 3600 joules). But if you’re computing your electricity usage, you’ll need to determine the equivalent of 100 ...