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KB2VXA > ENERGY 30.11.08 02:30l 67 Lines 3293 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: GM7HUD > CFLs and Bob
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Sent: 081130/0123Z @:VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC #:49770 [Kempsey, QF68JX] $:49770_VK
From: KB2VXA@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
To : ENERGY@WW
Hi Andy and all,
My experience with CFLs varies considerably, some don't last long at all
and others I've dragged with me from one house to another for years. Then
a few lasted a few days, others hours, one smoked up in minutes and one
never lit at all. It makes one wonder if they ever heard of qualty
control.
I'll tell you about Bob's problem, frogs. Moths and other night flying
insects are attracted to light, more accurately they navigate by distant
sources like the moon. Lamps don't attract them, they fly around them in
ever tigtening circles until eventually they land on them... enter the
frogs. Incandescents get too hot and kill them so no wonder a sticky frog
tongue burnt once will avoid them. CFLs run cooler and don't hurt the
frogs so eventually they become covered with frog spit. Usually mounted
base down the sticky goo eventually runs down into the inverter ballast
causing it to operate improperly shortening the lamp's life. A really big
bug requires a big gob of spit and usually one that big will short out
the ballast releasing the familiar magic smoke essential for the
operation of all electrical equipment.
I wonder why he's not hit on the lamp that lasts a good long time because
it has a built in defense against frogs, high voltage neon. There you
have it Bob, white neon isn't neon at all, in fact the only tubes
containing the gas are red. White is pretty much the same as any other
flourescent, argon with a trace of mercury and a coating on the inside of
the glass. That in case you didn't know was Tesla's invention, it took a
bit of refinement to make them operate at lower voltages. Nick never had
a problem with frogs in the lab, ever wonder why?
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