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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
bd139:
--- Quote from: tautech on May 25, 2018, 09:10:29 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 25, 2018, 09:01:11 am ---You can indeed get them from eBay. Will order a couple later (I will blow one up) :)
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I've never popped a incandescent bulb in the bulb tester......think about it, how could you ?
I do keep a few wattages 60, 100 and 150 and swap them around depending on what I'm working on.
There's no reason why you can't use 40 or 60W on many modern devices as they pull much less from the mains anyway. On older stuff you will need 100W or higher. IIRC a D83 wouldn't get going with a 100W bulb.
It's just some SMPS that don't like dim bulb supply like you wised me up on for that Philips CRO.
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I can use two bulbs in parallel ;)
Why buy one bulb when you can buy two for twice the price! :-+
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 25, 2018, 09:01:11 am ---You can indeed get them from eBay. Will order a couple later (I will blow one up) :)
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Yep, I expect you will, you know that you have to justify your pf name [emoji6]
From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: tautech on May 25, 2018, 09:10:29 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 25, 2018, 09:01:11 am ---You can indeed get them from eBay. Will order a couple later (I will blow one up) :)
--- End quote ---
I've never popped a incandescent bulb in the bulb tester......think about it, how could you ?
I do keep a few wattages 60, 100 and 150 and swap them around depending on what I'm working on.
There's no reason why you can't use 40 or 60W on many modern devices as they pull much less from the mains anyway. On older stuff you will need 100W or higher. IIRC a D83 wouldn't get going with a 100W bulb.
It's just some SMPS that don't like dim bulb supply like you wised me up on for that Philips CRO.
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If anyone can pop a lamp in a tester then you just know that it's going to highly likely, that person will be bd139, he loves to smoke things. Hmm never seen a incandescent lamp smoke before, well that's not quite true, seen one smoke with its glass bulb broken to let air in [emoji48]
From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]
bd139:
They're quite easy to smoke. All you have to do is stick it across two phases on a three phase system, as our sparky did with a bus bar and a 240V drop a while back. Fecking eejit.
Specmaster:
--- Quote from: bd139 on May 25, 2018, 09:34:22 am ---They're quite easy to smoke. All you have to do is stick it across two phases on a three phase system, as our sparky did with a bus bar and a 240V drop a while back. Fecking eejit.
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How the fuck did he manage that?
From mobile device so predictive text might have struck again [emoji83]
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