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From: sjb@dalek.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: incandescent light bulb life extender
Message-ID: <160@dalek.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 90 18:14:20 GMT
References: <4247@kitty.UUCP> <5297@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Reply-To: sjb@dalek.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley)
Organization: Bradley Audio Engineering, Aloha, OR
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In article <5297@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> jgd@Dixie.Com (John G. DeArmond) writes:
>I never claimed that the rectifier buttons had caused any fires and I
>don't believe the other fellow did either; I simply stated that the ones
>I tried in my fixtures had burned to a crisp.

Just to add another data point, two of the diode buttons I tried
also burned up (though 6 others worked fine for years).  On one
lamp I tried putting a 3 amp 400 PIV diode in series in the lamp's
cord (this was a lamp which was on most of the time and which one
of the buttons had burned up on).  I know that this would not be
UL approved, but is it inherently unsafe?
-- 
Seth J. Bradley   Address: sjb@dalek.iwarp.intel.com
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