[TheForge] Shop Lighting

[Bob Willman]

	Common Edison current is 60 complete cycles per second. It is off
twice during a cycle. 


Bob Willman
Bowling Green, Ohio
The Eagle's Anvil
WB8NQW

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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [TheForge] Shop Lighting

Grover Richardson wrote:

>
>Actually 120 times, but that's ok<G>.  But yes, there are effects 
>though we can't see them.
>
>  
>
If I had the time I'd build a strobe and check you out.
As I remember it is OFF 60 times a second. It is also ON 60 times a second.
Thus the 120. I barely remember the explanation.

Are the fluorescents essentially a DC operation? (Responding to only one
half of the wave?)  If so, I am correct.
 If not, you are.
Never claimed to actually understand that stuff.

Either way it is far faster than we perceive.

Mike Graf

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