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 ...
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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, ...
You cannot change the light of a CFL, either. 5.CFLs have been around for several years. However, the older lights still make up about two-thirds of total light bulb sales. A. When to stop to use CFLs B. Edison made the world bright C. The older style lights are still used widely...
Best case scenario is that there is enough force out of a something the size of a milk crate to drive a generator big enough for a flashlight bulb. As for the one that claimed 1250KW, trust me when I say that if that were true then, given the gauge of wires that they were using...
Other than avoiding the fishiest fish, you can also reduce the risk of mercury poisoning by never vacuuming up mercury from a broken thermometer or fluorescent bulb, asking your dentist about your fillings, avoiding religious rituals (typically voodoo or Santeria) involving mercury sold as azogue or...
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...
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 ...
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...