In message <[email protected]>, Bob Camp writes:
>The thing that makes the CFL's nasty for lab use are the cheap >little switchers built into them. Conventional LED lights also have >cheap little switchers in them. Doing them with a 30% efficient >linear regulator gets you back to halogen type lumens per watt... I run my led-lights directly off my 12V battery backed supply without any regulation, just find the right number of LEDS to connect in series for the maximum charge voltage, and live with a little less light in hold-over mode... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
