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From: dgs@hpfclv.UUCP (dgs)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 18:26:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 15 18:26:00 1985
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Nf-From: hpfclv!dgs    Jan 17 15:26:00 1985


> It's obvious that the battery manufacturers just can't bring themselves
> to produce a product that would effectively obsolete their disposable
> battery products...
> 
> I've also heard that light bulbs that last forever can be made, but you
> can't buy them, because G.E. (etc.) would lose money.

  Yes,  lights  batterys  and  nylons.  There is a way  around  the  light
  problem  though, you can insert a diode in the line to effectively  half
  wave  rectify  the ac  current.  This will cause the light  bulb to burn
  dimmer  and  thereby  remain  cooler.  Heat,  or  'burning  up',  is the
  downfall of the filement in every light bulb.  To maintain light output,
  you install a higher wattage light bulb which still burns cooler that it
  is  designed  to burn out at.  This will cause most light  bulbs to last
  about 10 times longer than they are spec'ed to (as if I have measured it
  :-).


  Dan (my 4-year old still knocks the lamps over) Schmidt
  Hewlett-Packard
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