So I got this brillian effoff light rom a skip outside a shopfitters the other day. It plugs into the mains but when it is switched on it hums. It's that sort of powerful.
The only thing on the bulb says: CED LMB170DE
In the housing there is a capacitor, an igniter and a transformer. The Igniter is rated for 400 Watts but I can't believe that's all it is. There's all sorts of ratings pasted all over things but what do I look for?
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:54:34 -0700, Weatherlawyer mused:
Or that sort of knackered.
Lamp.
Give us a picture for a start, of the lamp or fitting, preferably both. I don't know what you're looking for exactly until what you're looking for has been found. If you could give us all the numbers we could possibly tell you what you want, but a picture tells a thousand words. You should know all this though.
There's loads -and that's just the small print. I can't even see the invisible stuff!
Knowing "all this though" and having a camera are not the same thing at all.
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:06:43 -0700, Weatherlawyer mused:
Hmm.
Everyone's got a camera nowadays, try buying something without a camera built in!
First port of call would be google and then possibly...
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:14:03 GMT, "George" mused:
lamp in commercial fittings.
Odd. I spent a load of money at the supermarket and managed to avoid buying ANNYTHING with a camera in it.
In fact I can't think of anything I have bought in the last 2 years that DID have a camera in it.
What am I doing wrong?
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 15:27:12 +0100, The Natural Philosopher mused:
Taking things a bit too literally. ;)
I bought a mobile phone recently without a camera, wap etc - and that was easy!
The rating on the transformer (which is really a ballast).
The rating on the ignitor is just the max lamp wattage it can ignite.
Beware that the ignitor and ballast generate pulses of several kV to start the lamp (depending on exactly what lamp it uses).
Does it actually work?
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:26:57 +0100, "Brian G" mused:
A brand new one? I want a phone like that, just for making phone calls with, not one that will occasionally make a call inbetween crashing and locking up.
Samsung C300, £30 from Woolworths on either Orange or Voda:
Sodium, mercury or metal halide discharge lamp. The light colour can tell you which,
It's not mercury -- mercury doesn't need an ignitor. (Neither does low pressure sodium.)
On 14 Jul 2007 23:21:29 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) mused:
If he read the rest of the thread he'd see exactly wehat it was.
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I've got one too - but it wasn't easy finding one.
Now I'm almost wishing there were a camera with it, the results are very, very good for candids.
Mary
Mine makes my thigh tremble - because I keep it in my left hand pocket. Can't hear the 'ring' tone thankfully :-)
Mary
Like a bicycle you mean? I can programme a bicycle. Cool! Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to bin that second hand one I bought the other day with effing seat post problem and get a Bicycameral.
Why can't you get a camera with a built in phone?
Don't ask me, I don't make the things :-)
Mary
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