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Commander Kinsey
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:03:11 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
I\'ve never heard of an incandescent bulb getting that much dimmer. Perhaps it was a one-off fault, or an older design with different filament material?
I\'ve never heard of an incandescent bulb getting that much dimmer. Perhaps it was a one-off fault, or an older design with different filament material?
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On Aug 20, 2020 at 5:46:47 PM MST, \"\"Commander Kinsey\"\"
<CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:
Or they put less power through it? Don\'t know.
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<CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:
Or they put less power through it? Don\'t know.
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superior by attacking the messenger.
They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.
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micky
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In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 21 Aug 2020 01:46:47 +0100, \"Commander
Kinsey\" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:
Or just that it\'s old.
My grandmother in her pantry had a light bulb with a point on the end,
and when she sold the house, I took the bulb and stored in my bedroom
closet.
While I was away at college, my mother sold that house and I totally
forgot to tell her to take the lightbulb. In fact it was close enough I
could have gone home and gotten it.
That was 1967.
When I was iin Indianapolis in 2008, I went to my old house and I was
going to ask them for the bulb. The socket was broken -- no chain --
and it was a shallow closet that didn\'t need more light than the room
provided, and it seemed possible they\'d noticed the chain was missing
and just ignored the bulb for 40 years. I went twice a day for the 3
days I was there but they were never home and there were no footprints
jn the snow.
I went home and tried to figure out their name and number but I couldn\'t
figure it out. Now it\'s 53 years and the odds I can get that bulb are
getting smaller and smaller. Darn.
How old would a bulb with a point on it be, anyhow?
Kinsey\" <CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:
Or just that it\'s old.
My grandmother in her pantry had a light bulb with a point on the end,
and when she sold the house, I took the bulb and stored in my bedroom
closet.
While I was away at college, my mother sold that house and I totally
forgot to tell her to take the lightbulb. In fact it was close enough I
could have gone home and gotten it.
That was 1967.
When I was iin Indianapolis in 2008, I went to my old house and I was
going to ask them for the bulb. The socket was broken -- no chain --
and it was a shallow closet that didn\'t need more light than the room
provided, and it seemed possible they\'d noticed the chain was missing
and just ignored the bulb for 40 years. I went twice a day for the 3
days I was there but they were never home and there were no footprints
jn the snow.
I went home and tried to figure out their name and number but I couldn\'t
figure it out. Now it\'s 53 years and the odds I can get that bulb are
getting smaller and smaller. Darn.
How old would a bulb with a point on it be, anyhow?
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Peeler
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On 21 Aug 2020 01:39:59 GMT, Snit the git, another brain dead,
troll-feeding, senile asshole, blathered again:
> Or they put less power through it? Don\'t know.
You DO know that you are playing the filthy Scottish troll\'s and attention
whore\'s game, senile Snit? Or are you too senile to realize it?
troll-feeding, senile asshole, blathered again:
> Or they put less power through it? Don\'t know.
You DO know that you are playing the filthy Scottish troll\'s and attention
whore\'s game, senile Snit? Or are you too senile to realize it?
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Peeler
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:12:13 -0400, micky, yet another brain damaged,
troll-feeding, senile asshole, blathered:
> Or just that it\'s old.
Or maybe it\'s just you who is old, you troll-feeding senile git! <BG>
> My grandmother in her pantry had a light bulb with a point on the end,
Oh, no! Yet another senile twit with his typical senile bullshit stories!
<tsk>
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troll-feeding, senile asshole, blathered:
> Or just that it\'s old.
Or maybe it\'s just you who is old, you troll-feeding senile git! <BG>
> My grandmother in her pantry had a light bulb with a point on the end,
Oh, no! Yet another senile twit with his typical senile bullshit stories!
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Martin Brown
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On 21/08/2020 02:39, Snit wrote:
It is an old carbon filament lamp and they were never very bright.
Run continuously the way it has been the carbon very slowly evaporates
off the filament and condenses on the glass envelope. It may eventually
fail the same way as any other hot filament when a small region becomes
a much higher resistance than all the rest and thermal runaway occurs.
However, because these early filaments were quite thick and chunky and
run relatively cool for a light bulb it has a very long lifetime so long
as you never subject it the the thermal stress of a power on from cold.
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It is an old carbon filament lamp and they were never very bright.
Run continuously the way it has been the carbon very slowly evaporates
off the filament and condenses on the glass envelope. It may eventually
fail the same way as any other hot filament when a small region becomes
a much higher resistance than all the rest and thermal runaway occurs.
However, because these early filaments were quite thick and chunky and
run relatively cool for a light bulb it has a very long lifetime so long
as you never subject it the the thermal stress of a power on from cold.
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Regards,
Martin Brown
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Steve Roberts
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Just search for Phoebus Cartel... LOL
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Steve
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Mike Perkins
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On 21/08/2020 10:17:29, Martin Brown wrote:
I thought carbon filaments worked the opposite way; where a hotter part
of the filament becomes more conductive and so tend to self-regulate.
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Mike Perkins
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www.videosolutions.ltd.uk
I thought carbon filaments worked the opposite way; where a hotter part
of the filament becomes more conductive and so tend to self-regulate.
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Mike Perkins
Video Solutions Ltd
www.videosolutions.ltd.uk
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Lasse Langwadt Christensen
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fredag den 21. august 2020 kl. 02.46.55 UTC+2 skrev Commander Kinsey:
it is an extremely crappy almost useless light bulb that outputs almost no light
it is an extremely crappy almost useless light bulb that outputs almost no light
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Commander Kinsey
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 10:17:29 +0100, Martin Brown <\'\'\'newspam\'\'\'@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
Hence the UPS. And if they had any sense, they\'d use a dimmer to restart it when required.
Hence the UPS. And if they had any sense, they\'d use a dimmer to restart it when required.
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Commander Kinsey
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 02:42:47 +0100, David_B <DavidB@n0mail.afraid.org> wrote:
Does \"don\'t know much\" mean that there is much he doesn\'t know, or he doesn\'t \"know lots of things\". Is there a difference, who cares, and write a 2000 word essay on it.
Does \"don\'t know much\" mean that there is much he doesn\'t know, or he doesn\'t \"know lots of things\". Is there a difference, who cares, and write a 2000 word essay on it.
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David_B
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On 21/08/2020 21:21, Commander Kinsey wrote:
You don\'t know that you were responding to a forger?!!
You don\'t know that you were responding to a forger?!!
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Commander Kinsey
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:19:56 +0100, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
Yes, should I have prefixed it with something rude?
Yes, should I have prefixed it with something rude?
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Commander Kinsey
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:52:10 +0100, Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:
But still better than a compact fluorescent.
But still better than a compact fluorescent.
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David_B
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On 21/08/2020 23:33, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Of course! ;-)
I expect one of your parrots could have provided a choice phrase!
Of course! ;-)
I expect one of your parrots could have provided a choice phrase!
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Lasse Langwadt Christensen
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lørdag den 22. august 2020 kl. 00.38.25 UTC+2 skrev Commander Kinsey:
in what way? other than turning electricity into heat
in what way? other than turning electricity into heat
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Commander Kinsey
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On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 00:29:21 +0100, Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:
More light.
More light.
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Commander Kinsey
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:52:01 +0100, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
You remind me of one that was not. At my first job, I tried to move one of these:
http://www.stevesonian.com/museum/desktop/PowerMac_G3_Blue_And_White/downloads/pictures/PowerMac_G3_3q.jpg
Now any normal tower computer is flat on the side. This one was rounded. So when I put it on its side to place it on a trolley and wheeled it along an uneven surface (the car park to someone\'s car), it fell off and smashed into pieces.
Same type of machine, brand new, what do Apple supply it in? Some plastic film to protect the overly shiny surfaces from scratching in transit. I pull it off, charge myself with static, then touch the Mac. Ouch! That hurt my finger and fucked some circuitry - my finger was at the back where the monitor plugs in etc. Strike two to Apple. That was sent back under warranty with a rude note. The supplier replaced it free of charge, with no plastic this time!
It\'s not just Apple I hate. I was told to perform a minor repair to an HP (spit!) laserjet an American had brought with him. He had been using it in his office, so I thought nothing of carrying it down to my workshop to test it. What happened when I plugged it in? A loud bang. I then remembered the 240V to 120V transformer I\'d fitted in his office a fortnight earlier. I guess HP had never heard of dual voltage auto switching supplies. I threw the blasted thing in the bin and bought him a brand new man\'s voltage Brother printer.
On 21/08/2020 23:34, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:11:05 +0100, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org
wrote:
Get yourself a Mac if you want to be a REAL Troll!
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Is that what Macs are for?
They are more reliable, for sure!
You remind me of one that was not. At my first job, I tried to move one of these:
http://www.stevesonian.com/museum/desktop/PowerMac_G3_Blue_And_White/downloads/pictures/PowerMac_G3_3q.jpg
Now any normal tower computer is flat on the side. This one was rounded. So when I put it on its side to place it on a trolley and wheeled it along an uneven surface (the car park to someone\'s car), it fell off and smashed into pieces.
Same type of machine, brand new, what do Apple supply it in? Some plastic film to protect the overly shiny surfaces from scratching in transit. I pull it off, charge myself with static, then touch the Mac. Ouch! That hurt my finger and fucked some circuitry - my finger was at the back where the monitor plugs in etc. Strike two to Apple. That was sent back under warranty with a rude note. The supplier replaced it free of charge, with no plastic this time!
It\'s not just Apple I hate. I was told to perform a minor repair to an HP (spit!) laserjet an American had brought with him. He had been using it in his office, so I thought nothing of carrying it down to my workshop to test it. What happened when I plugged it in? A loud bang. I then remembered the 240V to 120V transformer I\'d fitted in his office a fortnight earlier. I guess HP had never heard of dual voltage auto switching supplies. I threw the blasted thing in the bin and bought him a brand new man\'s voltage Brother printer.
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:38:15 +0100, David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
Despite me swearing a lot, they never seem to copy it.
Despite me swearing a lot, they never seem to copy it.