Now we need differentiate the right or left rotation of electrons in the valance ring. Then determine which rotation of electron to allow to pass, jump to a higher energy level or freeze both rotations from passing. Just a thought...................
If you use CFLs, be assured that familiar dark spot will appear. Then the problems start arising in the CFL starting. LEDs have a tremendous MTBF. I'm talking about the LED element itself. Most current LED failures come from lousy power conversion supplies. When competition irons that out, Incandescent and CFLs will die in the future. Who cares about what the law says? It's the money and efficiency that will win regardless of the Morons on the hill in DC.
If you like CFL's go out and buy a Plasma TV. Same technologies as CFJ but different gases. Try a CFJ in cold weather. They will pepper spot all over. Remember the dark spots on tubes, probably not, but the dark spots are called the Edison effect. A device to absorb these impurities in fluorescent devices were called 'Getters'. They weren't perfect, as I'm sure we've all seen.
LEDs, 'Light Emitting Diodes', are diode junctions that use Gallium Arsenide and other chemical 'doping' to create the LED emit light. Note that the voltage used to excite LEDs are usually 2 volts. FYI, it takes alot less power to reduce the line voltage and drive a low current drain device, LEDs, than it does does to generate a high starting voltage to excite the gas in CFL devices. That means there is a high start up current surge to start the gas glowing.
Incandescent lamps are basically a resistor element, lamp filament, that gives off that familiar power sucking light bulb.
I cut a few corners here but I tried not to be overwhelming . So, buy what you like, I'll take LEDs anytime. BTW, LEDs work even better in the cold. They were developed at low temperatures and doped to operate at warmer temperatures. If you have a knowledgeable friend, Take a low emission LED with a 1.2K 1/4 watt series resistor, any standard 1.6 volt battery and place in a styrofoam cup with a 1/2 inch of Liquid Nitrogen. It'll light up the cup like a bright Chinese Lantern.
Tnx for the ramble.
In my previous post I used some poor English and CFJ references should read CFLs. I don't live in Finland, I live in the Tropical Alaskan Interior. 1st day above 20 below in a week. I wouldn't - couldn't heat my home with electric. We have the highest power bills in the US. I live 11.5 kM SSE of Fairbanks, Alaska. We us heating oil, but we have a backup generator and wood stove. You must have cheap electricity in Finland. Also, electric heat is soooooooooo dry, you can shuffle your feet and draw a dandy spark touching door knobs, etc. Be your own Van de Graaff generator.
In my previous post I used some poor English and CFJ references should read CFLs. I don't live in Finland, I live in the Tropical Alaskan Interior. 1st day above 20 below in a week. I wouldn't - couldn't heat my home with electric. We have the highest power bills in the US. I live 11.5 kM SSE of Fairbanks, Alaska. We us heating oil, but we have a backup generator and wood stove. You must have cheap electricity in Finland. Also, electric heat is soooooooooo dry, you can shuffle your feet and draw a dandy spark touching door knobs, etc. Be your own Van de Graaff generator.
If you use CFLs, be assured that familiar dark spot will appear. Then the problems start arising in the CFL starting. LEDs have a tremendous MTBF. I'm talking about the LED element itself. Most current LED failures come from lousy power conversion supplies. When competition irons that out, Incandescent and CFLs will die in the future. Who cares about what the law says? It's the money and efficiency that will win regardless of the Morons on the hill in DC.
If you like CFL's go out and buy a Plasma TV. Same technologies as CFJ but different gases. Try a CFJ in cold weather. They will pepper spot all over. Remember the dark spots on tubes, probably not, but the dark spots are called the Edison effect. A device to absorb these impurities in fluorescent devices were called 'Getters'. They weren't perfect, as I'm sure we've all seen.
LEDs, 'Light Emitting Diodes', are diode junctions that use Gallium Arsenide and other chemical 'doping' to create the LED emit light. Note that the voltage used to excite LEDs are usually 2 volts. FYI, it takes alot less power to reduce the line voltage and drive a low current drain device, LEDs, than it does does to generate a high starting voltage to excite the gas in CFL devices. That means there is a high start up current surge to start the gas glowing.
Incandescent lamps are basically a resistor element, lamp filament, that gives off that familiar power sucking light bulb.
I cut a few corners here but I tried not to be overwhelming . So, buy what you like, I'll take LEDs anytime. BTW, LEDs work even better in the cold. They were developed at low temperatures and doped to operate at warmer temperatures. If you have a knowledgeable friend, Take a low emission LED with a 1.2K 1/4 watt series resistor, any standard 1.6 volt battery and place in a styrofoam cup with a 1/2 inch of Liquid Nitrogen. It'll light up the cup like a bright Chinese Lantern.
Tnx for the ramble.
I use a stylus. Solves my problems.
Beaucoup Dinky Dow in the Tropical Alaskan Interior. Stylus even works with gloves. Icing up is the real problem this time of year. Minus 35 degrees.
I'd love to see the link budget.
BTW, a 'knife edge' effect exists that actually 'bends' the waves over mountain ranges.
What bothers me about all the wireless is the reduction of the SNL as the broad spectrum noise floor rises. But, hey, if you can't touch, feel taste, smell or hear the RF pollution; does it really exist? A Spectrum Analyzer is a cool tool, but offers a scary future....
I used to fix elcetromechanical pinball machines and GUESS WHAT THE HEART OF THE DEVICE WAS????
A relay driven computer. It had a 'cpu' that would rotate each time the ball stuck something on the playing field. The proper points were opened and closed to count the correct score for the player. It supported outboard North. South, (East & West) functional sub-processing units as well as buses for lights and relays. The scoring mechanisms had a 'carrying pawl' that activated the next scoring stepping relay on the 10th rotation of the previous digit. Remarkable! When the score got high enough, to a hard wired programmed level, the number of available games would step once and a solonoid would strike the wooden case, prouducing a 'knock' noise to alert the player. As the score incremented, different toned bar chimes would be struck by solonoids to produce a ringing noise in sequence to the amount of the score's vaue.
Amazing, huh.
Then there were the telephone switches that used stepping relays and seeking relay paths so you could dial your local repairman to come fix the broken pin ball machine.
Ah, but one day, along came CROMs and RALUs, PIO devices and then the Motorola 6800 and Z80 families of silicon substrated families of controling and processing devices to replace all those myrids of point contacts, switches and solonoids.
But don't despair, I'm working on a BFEMP machine that will fry junctions world wide. I've still got an old toolbox around here with my point tools and white business card strips with contact cleaner.
I'd give out my SKYPE number, but I guess no one will be able to call..or on the normal phone system either.
Well, there goes another plan for world domination...........
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Now we need differentiate the right or left rotation of electrons in the valance ring. Then determine which rotation of electron to allow to pass, jump to a higher energy level or freeze both rotations from passing. Just a thought...................
If you use CFLs, be assured that familiar dark spot will appear. Then the problems start arising in the CFL starting. LEDs have a tremendous MTBF. I'm talking about the LED element itself. Most current LED failures come from lousy power conversion supplies. When competition irons that out, Incandescent and CFLs will die in the future. Who cares about what the law says? It's the money and efficiency that will win regardless of the Morons on the hill in DC. If you like CFL's go out and buy a Plasma TV. Same technologies as CFJ but different gases. Try a CFJ in cold weather. They will pepper spot all over. Remember the dark spots on tubes, probably not, but the dark spots are called the Edison effect. A device to absorb these impurities in fluorescent devices were called 'Getters'. They weren't perfect, as I'm sure we've all seen. LEDs, 'Light Emitting Diodes', are diode junctions that use Gallium Arsenide and other chemical 'doping' to create the LED emit light. Note that the voltage used to excite LEDs are usually 2 volts. FYI, it takes alot less power to reduce the line voltage and drive a low current drain device, LEDs, than it does does to generate a high starting voltage to excite the gas in CFL devices. That means there is a high start up current surge to start the gas glowing. Incandescent lamps are basically a resistor element, lamp filament, that gives off that familiar power sucking light bulb. I cut a few corners here but I tried not to be overwhelming . So, buy what you like, I'll take LEDs anytime. BTW, LEDs work even better in the cold. They were developed at low temperatures and doped to operate at warmer temperatures. If you have a knowledgeable friend, Take a low emission LED with a 1.2K 1/4 watt series resistor, any standard 1.6 volt battery and place in a styrofoam cup with a 1/2 inch of Liquid Nitrogen. It'll light up the cup like a bright Chinese Lantern. Tnx for the ramble.
In my previous post I used some poor English and CFJ references should read CFLs. I don't live in Finland, I live in the Tropical Alaskan Interior. 1st day above 20 below in a week. I wouldn't - couldn't heat my home with electric. We have the highest power bills in the US. I live 11.5 kM SSE of Fairbanks, Alaska. We us heating oil, but we have a backup generator and wood stove. You must have cheap electricity in Finland. Also, electric heat is soooooooooo dry, you can shuffle your feet and draw a dandy spark touching door knobs, etc. Be your own Van de Graaff generator.
In my previous post I used some poor English and CFJ references should read CFLs. I don't live in Finland, I live in the Tropical Alaskan Interior. 1st day above 20 below in a week. I wouldn't - couldn't heat my home with electric. We have the highest power bills in the US. I live 11.5 kM SSE of Fairbanks, Alaska. We us heating oil, but we have a backup generator and wood stove. You must have cheap electricity in Finland. Also, electric heat is soooooooooo dry, you can shuffle your feet and draw a dandy spark touching door knobs, etc. Be your own Van de Graaff generator.
If you use CFLs, be assured that familiar dark spot will appear. Then the problems start arising in the CFL starting. LEDs have a tremendous MTBF. I'm talking about the LED element itself. Most current LED failures come from lousy power conversion supplies. When competition irons that out, Incandescent and CFLs will die in the future. Who cares about what the law says? It's the money and efficiency that will win regardless of the Morons on the hill in DC. If you like CFL's go out and buy a Plasma TV. Same technologies as CFJ but different gases. Try a CFJ in cold weather. They will pepper spot all over. Remember the dark spots on tubes, probably not, but the dark spots are called the Edison effect. A device to absorb these impurities in fluorescent devices were called 'Getters'. They weren't perfect, as I'm sure we've all seen. LEDs, 'Light Emitting Diodes', are diode junctions that use Gallium Arsenide and other chemical 'doping' to create the LED emit light. Note that the voltage used to excite LEDs are usually 2 volts. FYI, it takes alot less power to reduce the line voltage and drive a low current drain device, LEDs, than it does does to generate a high starting voltage to excite the gas in CFL devices. That means there is a high start up current surge to start the gas glowing. Incandescent lamps are basically a resistor element, lamp filament, that gives off that familiar power sucking light bulb. I cut a few corners here but I tried not to be overwhelming . So, buy what you like, I'll take LEDs anytime. BTW, LEDs work even better in the cold. They were developed at low temperatures and doped to operate at warmer temperatures. If you have a knowledgeable friend, Take a low emission LED with a 1.2K 1/4 watt series resistor, any standard 1.6 volt battery and place in a styrofoam cup with a 1/2 inch of Liquid Nitrogen. It'll light up the cup like a bright Chinese Lantern. Tnx for the ramble.
I use a stylus. Solves my problems. Beaucoup Dinky Dow in the Tropical Alaskan Interior. Stylus even works with gloves. Icing up is the real problem this time of year. Minus 35 degrees.
I'd love to see the link budget. BTW, a 'knife edge' effect exists that actually 'bends' the waves over mountain ranges. What bothers me about all the wireless is the reduction of the SNL as the broad spectrum noise floor rises. But, hey, if you can't touch, feel taste, smell or hear the RF pollution; does it really exist? A Spectrum Analyzer is a cool tool, but offers a scary future....
I used to fix elcetromechanical pinball machines and GUESS WHAT THE HEART OF THE DEVICE WAS???? A relay driven computer. It had a 'cpu' that would rotate each time the ball stuck something on the playing field. The proper points were opened and closed to count the correct score for the player. It supported outboard North. South, (East & West) functional sub-processing units as well as buses for lights and relays. The scoring mechanisms had a 'carrying pawl' that activated the next scoring stepping relay on the 10th rotation of the previous digit. Remarkable! When the score got high enough, to a hard wired programmed level, the number of available games would step once and a solonoid would strike the wooden case, prouducing a 'knock' noise to alert the player. As the score incremented, different toned bar chimes would be struck by solonoids to produce a ringing noise in sequence to the amount of the score's vaue. Amazing, huh. Then there were the telephone switches that used stepping relays and seeking relay paths so you could dial your local repairman to come fix the broken pin ball machine. Ah, but one day, along came CROMs and RALUs, PIO devices and then the Motorola 6800 and Z80 families of silicon substrated families of controling and processing devices to replace all those myrids of point contacts, switches and solonoids. But don't despair, I'm working on a BFEMP machine that will fry junctions world wide. I've still got an old toolbox around here with my point tools and white business card strips with contact cleaner. I'd give out my SKYPE number, but I guess no one will be able to call..or on the normal phone system either. Well, there goes another plan for world domination...........