[time-nuts] Conducting Bench Top Material

Max Robinson max at maxsmusicplace.com
Fri Jan 29 19:39:25 UTC 2010


I've heard you can salvage some good rectifiers and maybe a transistor or 
two from dead CF bulbs.

Regards.

Max.  K 4 O D S.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <d.seiter at comcast.net>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" 
<time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Conducting Bench Top Material


> 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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