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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Low Voltage lighting (Was:Re: compact fluorescent fixtures)
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Date: 28 Dec 90 21:51:03 GMT
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In article <9949@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> charless@cory.Berkeley.EDU writes:
|>The lamp has a power supply/transformer which takes 120 VAC
|>and converts it to 12 V. (I don't know if it's really a
|
|This doesn't indicate whether it is SS or not.  Transformers can have serious

Ok, I took apart my Crest Low Voltage Halogen Track Light, which uses
a GE MR-16 50 W bulb. It is solid state. There is a bridge rectifier
followed by a smallish capacitor feeding a couple of power transistor
looking devices (could be MOSFETs, I don't know) which drive a small
transformer. Obviously they are using high frequency voltage conversion
to reduce the size of the package, trading silicon for iron.

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