[RTTY] noise

[Roy Morgan]

At 04:02 PM 1/6/2006, Glenn Wyant wrote:
>I found a enormous amount of crud being generated by a small
>halogen lamp...


Glenn,

I took apart a house-hold-type halogen lamp and found a diode in the base. 
Apparently the 100 watt lamp, if equipped with a simple diode in the base 
to apply only every other half cycle, produces about 60 watts of light.

Very odd.

I can imagine that if such a diode was breaking down in reverse mode, it 
would make a lot of hash.

Roy


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