I'm not sure I'd want to be in the same room with him the first time he 
powered it up!

Mike

>On Thu, 24 May 2001, Gene Johnson wrote:
>
> > Yup that should have been 100W not 100A.
>
>Thought so, you'd need some pretty heavy cabling and probably a direct
>connection to the utility company to power a bulb at 100 amps.  After all,
>12 volts at 100 amps would dissipate 1,200 watts, and that is into a bulb
>resistance of 12/100 = 0.12 ohms!  The loss in the wiring to supply this
>kind of current would be very problematic.
>
>- Wayde
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