On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 07:57:00PM -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote: > Sure Erik, but Christmas lights are AC and why would anyone use
That is absurd. Lights (i.e., incandescent light bulbs) are not AC. They are resistive filaments. They will work DC or AC. > an expensive (relatively) powersupply to do what a cheaper proven > technology can do? You mean, like your suggestion of putting an extra resistor in every bulb? That sounds more expensive to me than not putting in an extra resistor. Also, if you are going to do that, why not put the extra resistor IN THE SOCKET instead of in the bulb? Then you can use standard bulbs and you don't needlessly throw away an extra resistor when the bulb burns out. > Let me make a prediction: when the economies of scale bring the price > down to something like "cheap", manufacturers will make Christmas > lights with AFCIs (arc fault circuit interrupters) standard, even > if it isn't required by law. This would be a better solution than > anything we have discussed so far. This discussion is getting surreal. The parallel lights I've seen, as I stated clearly in my FIRST MESSAGE this morning, are more expensive than the series ones. And they seemed to start appearing relatively recently (I can't remember when I first saw them, but it was in the neighborhood of 5-10 years ago). Probably about the time cheap DC transformer/power supplies started appearing. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
