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RE: true wattageRE: Why d (fwd)



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Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 19:20:21 GMT
From: Robert Michaels <robert.michaels-at-online.sme-dot-org>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: RE: true wattageRE: Why d


T>known) relationship to power, and can be part of your ballast anyway.  If
T>there is too much drop, use a lower voltage bulb - a car headlamp bulb with
T>both fillaments in series is a 30 amp device - and an incadescent bulb is
T>approx constant current within it's normal operating voltage range (because a

        Swear to God - there must be a strong contingent of old
        car buffs on the Tesla List.  (A few weeks ago a poster
        was talking about ignition breaker points [forgetting
        they're 20+ years obsolete].  Now this.)


        For =at least= the past 10 years American cars have used
        halogen lamps.  One advantage of such is their consumption of
        =much= less current for the same brightness.

        So -- it's closer to 5 than to 30.  Unless you get the old
        fashioned (but still available) sealed-beam headlamps.

                                        Illuminatingly,

                                        Robert Michaels - Detroit, USA
                                                          ^^^^^^^^