[time-nuts] Conducting Bench Top Material

d.seiter at comcast.net d.seiter at comcast.net
Fri Jan 29 07:32:34 UTC 2010


And now "they" are trying to do away with edison bulbs. I hope the LED equivalents are better, because the CF bulbs seem to last less in most home apps. (I have "standard" bulbs that have outlasted multiple CF bulbs in similar applications) In particular, I have a 75W desk lamp bulb which has been in use since '97 and gets more hours than the ceiling CFs in the same room, which have been replaced at least 3 times... 

They are not enclosed or abused. I was really PO'd at the short life of my first set of CF lamps. They seem to be doing better now, but still there is no great enhanced life span. 

Dave 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Hawkins" <bill at iaxs.net> 
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com> 
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:28:31 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain 
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Conducting Bench Top Material 

Warning: Way OT 

When the vacuum tube was born, there were half as many people on 
this planet, and global climate change wasn't a problem. Very few 
people will talk about populution. It's as if there was a blind 
spot in the brain. Maybe there's no intelligent life in the 
Universe because all life evolves with similar selection pressures. 
Once technology removes natural predators (or stops world wars with 
the atomic bomb), population heads for the sky until the big die-off. 

If other people don't have a problem with having four kids, I have 
no problem with using vacuum tubes and Edison bulbs. 

All in my humble opinion, of course. 

Bill Hawkins 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Rex 
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:50 PM 

Steve Rooke wrote: 
> Wasn't life so much easier with valves (tubes)... 
Nostalgia? 

Valves (tubes) warmer in close proximity, yes. Global warming should 
make that, on average, less helpful. 
........ 
glowing bulbs 
Other than that memory, and certain trade-offs at big Rf power, I'll say 
I no longer encourage the glowing bulbs for most things. 


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