No need to worry much longer about breaking the
small flourescent bulbs, so popular now in Australia
and WMart - there are about to be eclipsed by the
new LOW WATTAGE LED BULBS. The LED technolgoy is
already in use on sailboat mastheads, 18-wheeler
tail\lights, and most updated red/green/yellow
Fred,
The LED traffic lights in FL must work better than the ones in my town.
The LEDs appear to burn out in patches. Looks like a leaf that a bug
has been dining on. On the positive side, the manufacturers will
certainly get their act together in time.
72,
Jim - W4BQP
K2 #2268
ARES EC,
realize the danger.
Walt K8CV Royal Oak, MI.
- Original Message -
From: Bill Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Trail Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT mercury
On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Trail Fox wrote
On Thu, 17 May 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There was an article in the paper about CFL lamps ( those twisty energy
saving bulbs ) and they are supposedly dangerous. Drop one and it's, open the
window and shut the doors on the room, call the EPA!
http://www.epa.gov/mercury/spills/
I have
Of Jim Miller
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:59 AM
To: Thom LaCosta; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: mercury
I seldom break any bulb, in fact I can't remember the last
time I did. I
can't see why I would break a CFL any more frequently.
My main
metallic mercury rolled around in your hand is not absorbed through the skin.
I don't know, not about to try it, but I think it would just come out the other
end if you ate it.
You know, they banned lead from paints. But the binder for latex paints is
mercury.
They have banned mercurial
My Lady and I are hosts/docents at a lighthouse on the Oregon
coast and I've been to sea for a few years. This has created an
awareness of lighthouse-related things and one of these is the
legend that keepers sometimes went insane from the isolation
and loneliness of lighthouse duty. It's now
Not insane maybe, but 30 years tending a lighthouse, the light
and intermittent fog horn never bothered the old man keeper,
until early one morning the fog horn failed to sound off... the old
man woke up with a start and wondered What was that?
de Joe, aa4nn
awareness of lighthouse-related
Fred, et.al.
I'll suggest this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning
for a starter discusion of the ill effects of mercury upon.
--
73 Rod, Ai7NN
On 4/15/07, Trail Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
metallic mercury rolled around in your hand is not absorbed through the skin.
I don't
A few records need to be set straight here:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:13:12 -0600 CC:
Subject: [Elecraft] OT mercury metallic mercury
rolled around in your hand is not absorbed through
the skin.
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