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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Halogen news (Re: Do Halogen lamps need ballasts?)
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Date: 14 Dec 90 01:57:51 GMT
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In article <1348@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
|GE has just improved the electrical efficiency of halogen lamps.
|They give the envelope an infrared-reflective coating.  No details

This is great. Any relationship to the shortage of MR-16 50 Watt bulbs?
You can't buy one for love or money here in the SF Bay area.

(no doubt thanks to the Taiwanese dumping those low cost low voltage
halogen track lights on the market without warning GE)

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