Re: Cost of electricity for light dimmer
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Date: 10/27/04
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Date: 27 Oct 2004 23:26:59 GMT
In alt.engineering.electrical Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
| I use flourescent substitutes in some places, but they're not exactly a
| perfect solution either. The ones I use take a significant time
| (minutes, I think) to reach their peak brightness, an effect that seems
| to get worse as they age. However I've yet to have to replace one.
|
| I don't know that you can use a dimmer with them, though. I rather
| suspect they wouldn't like that.
There are dimmable ballasts. That obviously combines the role of limiting
the current and adjusting the current. I bet they are all solid-state.
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