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- Sun Aug 03, 2008 3:51 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Arc fault interrupter breakers.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2534
Thank you Dale (are you still inTurkey?) I wish it were that simple but the breakers aren't near each other. The householder seems to think that I am making a fuss about nothing even though her fridge's hinges are live with tramp votage (24 VAC) when her fridge is on because someone put a ceramic bo...
- Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:58 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Arc fault interrupter breakers.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2534
Arc fault interrupter breakers.
I wrote a detailed post but, after maybe five or six paragraphs of background information it simply disappeared and I won't bother re-writing it. I know how more information is always requested here and we both lost out. My question was,,,,,, What is the thinking and technology behind the new Arc fa...
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:43 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Flour. lamps and high tech.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5814
Welcome back, perfectbite. What are you smoking? :grin: Hello backatya. I am trying to quit smoking tobacco (a knock down drag out annual New Year's resolution) and haven't subsituted anything else. I was just thinking of the strictures of the night and wondering whether, besides electrical filamen...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:46 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Flour. lamps and high tech.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5814
I suppose I would have to add the refining of volatiles and pressure vessels to that list of high tech gadgetry and as something we take for granted. Even in the European Dark Ages writing wasn't lost so it wasn't as Dark an age as it could have been and my thinking is that writing and fire and simp...
- Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:57 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Flour. lamps and high tech.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5814
Flour. lamps and high tech.
Hello, long time no see. Happy New Year. I have three questions that I KNOW I can get a real answer to here. 1. What is it that changes the flourescent lamp's cycle from the given 60Hz to 7,200Hz? How was the change up in frequency accomplished in the old pitch and copper and iron ballasts? 2. What ...
- Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The impending death of incandescent bulbs
- Replies: 100
- Views: 78275
- Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:09 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: The impending death of incandescent bulbs
- Replies: 100
- Views: 78275
I know this doesn't have much to do with dimming flourescents but I find that I like (perhaps even need) a nice balanced lamp light for reading. I used to buy the incandescent Verilux bulbs that were made in France and that said on the box 'dyed blue glass, NOT painted blue glass like cheap imitatio...
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 1:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 24VAC to 12VAC
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3004
Re: 24VAC to 12VAC
Thank You. It really was friend whose wife was PO'd that her husband had broken her lighted table top fountain. He showed me the remote controller for the ornament and it was an X-10 thingy. The utility company had had to replace a neighbourhood transformer on Christmas Day and the surge (apparently...
- Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:03 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 24VAC to 12VAC
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3004
24VAC to 12VAC
A friend of mine has (had) a 120 VAC to 12 VAC 20W wall wart running a tabletop lighted fountain his wife is fond of. The light bulb burnt out and he replaced it not with a 10 Watt halogen bulb but with a 20 Watt halogen bulb which eventually caused his non fused, potted 12 VAC 20 Watt wall wart tra...
- Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:15 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Ley lines?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2553
Ley lines?
In this month's Scientific American one of the articles is on the Earth's Geodynamo and the 'flipping' of the Earth's magnetic poles. One of the article's diagrams shows what looks to be a tangled, exploded two color ball of yarn.<p>Given the advanced technology that is able to plot out these lines ...
- Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:29 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Magnet zapper
- Replies: 15
- Views: 8555
Re: Magnet zapper
Terri.<p>"That's how come I'm still so pretty and still have ten fingers on each soft white lovely hand."<p>Ten fingers on each hand????? Dem maganets ain't doing you no good at all babe.<p>[ March 29, 2005: Message edited by: perfectbite ]</p>
- Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:10 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: school projects
- Replies: 23
- Views: 9514
Re: school projects
For what it is worth, I agree with josmith.
- Sun Dec 26, 2004 10:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Digital thermostats
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3594
Digital thermostats
An elderly neighbour had her heater checked for the wintert and the guy broke her 1960's era Honeywell analogue clock that switched the thermostat on and off. I have looked for a replacement timed thermostat but they are all digital and I can see her having to pay $65.00 to someone to re–set it for ...
- Thu Dec 23, 2004 9:24 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Electromagnetic physics question
- Replies: 41
- Views: 15121
Re: Electromagnetic physics question
Thank You Terri.
- Thu Dec 23, 2004 7:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Electromagnetic physics question
- Replies: 41
- Views: 15121
Re: Electromagnetic physics question
Stephen, You mentioned two things:<p>"Edison applied himself to a wider range of devices than Tesla, for example the light bulb, batteries, telephone and phonograph. He also observed the "Edison effect" in a light bulb. This was the basis for the Fleming valve, which was later develop...