----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [Humor] RE: Question Regarding Religion and Atheism
> 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. You do know that AC and DC power isnt the same? You require larger wire for DC. Work it out from there. > > > 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. As it turns out I was on target regarding the shunt. Actually though its just a wire with a resistive coating. > > > 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. > Out of curiosity I did a bit of research and I cannot find a single example of *mini-lights* (the popular kind these days) wired in parallel. I was pretty sure I had seen some, but cannot find anyone who sells any. The old incandescent type Christmas lights are all wired in parallel, but that's not what we were talking about was it? xponent Dithering Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
