[Boatanchors] Incandescent bulbs

radioman390 at cs.com radioman390 at cs.com
Sun Jan 2 20:04:56 EST 2011


        I wonder what we will do when incandescents are outlawed and we need a dummy 
load?  Dig through the junk box for a good old incandescent?  Solder together a 
mess of resistors also from salvage?  Or maybe, just maybe, we could try the 
"saltwater dummy load" (google it).
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In Germany, one clever man relabeled his stock of light bulbs as "heat globes" and sold them 
to the dismay officials.

I hear he prevailed, as a lightbulb radiates 95% of its energy as heat. The 
5% visible light is just an (undesirable) by-product.

 
   
 
   
   



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