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From: rambler@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Dan Meyer)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Do Halogen lamps need ballasts?
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Date: 5 Dec 90 06:50:36 GMT
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kilian@cray.com (Alan Kilian) writes:
>In article <1197@inews.intel.com>, bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>> Take a halogen lamp.  Turn it on.  Allow a drop of water to
>> fall on it.  Run like hell.
>> 
>> You don't need any chemistry.  Temperature differences
>> are all you need to cause one of these to blow.
Take *any* incandesnant lamp. turn it on. Allow a drop of water to
fall on it. run like hell. Most incandesant lamps break under these 
conditions!
>> 
>> I don't think you can "soften" quartz without _extreme_
>> temperatures (thousands and thousands of K).
Agreed. isn't quartz a mineral? quite a bit different than glass?
>> 
>> 				--Blair
>> 				  "Billions and billions of Big Macs..."


-- Dan Meyer

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