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From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: florescents don't like cold!
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Date: 7 Apr 90 01:51:50 GMT
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In article <29716@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@pepsi.amd.com () writes:
>I'd been having a problem with the lights in my garage not working
>too well this winter at night. I just got some information from
>the GE Lighting Center and they say some new energy efficient
>tubes need to be at least 60 F. Some ballasts have this requirement
>too.

Phil, why not wrap some nichrome around those bulbs and heat them up?

Rumor has it that you can even put a glass jacket around those wires and
get light from them directly. ;-)

-wolfgang
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