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Meester Len . . . . .
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INCANDESCENT LAMP RELIABILITY :
With 3 lamps in the unit, any possibility of your aesthetically / physically mounting in a fourth, like lamp?
My story:
Back in '75, doubled the width of a " Brick and Mortar " storefront in a strip shopping center by taking in the adjunct . . . then defunct . . .photography store.
That left 1/2 of the 30 ft front with a display window and the possibility of using that plate glassed section for a 15 ft wide display of viewable wares.
Six "oat meal container" styled cylindrical light fixtures were spaced out and their design was using an internal aluminum parabolic reflector which made the use of a common lamp, be functioning as a floodlight type.
Instead of hooking the 6 lamps in the conventional manner, I chose to initially try 2 in series and evaluate the light output.
I found that the use of 100 watt clears was still giving me all of the light needed at night on lighting up the display.
Soooooo, I just went into the frontal crawl space and was about to wire the clusters into the AC supply line.
While up there, I noticed that there was OUR AC supply and about a foot away was conduit and tap off boxes for the feeding of the whole shopping centers frontal signs and sidewalk path lighting.
That was making it HOT at all times, with photocells or timers switching the different loads off or on.
Needless to say, I just moved my AC power source acquisiton, over to the closest junction box on that " FREE " electricity conduit source.
Now I can easily count up that time of use, by the following intervals of 5 year leases, which went from '75--'87.
1987 was the timing of the moving to a newer higher traffic volume location.
At the end of 1987, that end of that strip center of ~14 shops , had that corner torn into in order to build an ELL extension, in adding more shops to the center.
Now in excluding leap years, thats 12 years times 365 days for 4,380 days times 24 hours a day continual run time for a total of 105,120 hours. Not once did I ever have a lamp failure !
Yet, they may have ALL failed, when the demolition dozer hit them.
Seems like I have seen the spec of ~650 hours expected life time for a 60 watt lamp, being written on their packages.
Plus . . . . I have seen miniature lamps manufacturers touting the greatly enhanced reliability of their lamps, (as pilot lamps) when being used at 10% REDUCED supply voltage.
Nowwwwwww . . . . as for initiating a "Beta" testing . . . would you be interested in just taking the unit as is and placing two lamps in series and leaving the SOLE errant lamp still connected thru a series diode.
The series AC connected pair will discount any tungsten depletion and transmigration of being run on a pulsating unidirectional polarity source.
( UNLESS those lamps have already been partially affected by that situation.)
Thasssitttt . . . . .
73's de Edd
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I was lost . . . or . . . A Bagpiper at a Funeral
As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a
funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homeless
man. He had no family or friends, so the service was to be at a
Pauper’s’ cemetery, out in the back country.
As I was not familiar at all with the backwoods, I got hopelessly lost,
and, being a typical man, I wouldn't stop and ask for directions.
I finally arrived an hour late and saw the funeral guy had evidently
gone and the hearse was nowhere in sight. There were only the
diggers and crew left and they were eating lunch.
I felt badly and apologized to the men for being late. I went to the
side of the grave and looked down and the vault lid was already in
place. I didn’t know what else to do, so I started to play.
The workers put down their lunches and began to gather around. I played
out my heart and soul for this man with no family and friends. I played like
I’ve NEVER played before, for this poor homeless man.
And as I played ‘Amazing Grace,’ the workers began to weep. They wept,
I wept, we all wept together. When I finished I packed up my bagpipes
and started for my car. Though my head hung low, my heart was full.
As I opened the door to my car, I heard one of the workers say, "I ain't
never seen nuttin’ like that before and I’ve been putting in septic
tanks for going on twenty years."
Soooooo . . . . . Apparently . . . . I’m still lost . . . . .it’s sort of a man thing
. . . . . . . . ya' know ?
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