[TenTec] Way Off Topic, But...

[Phil Sussman]

I spoke with my "Christmas Tree Guru" who's been doing the light thing for
years. He advises the lamps that you are using have an internal resistance
that is too low.

He asks if you have all lamps out or just part of a string? Series lamps,
he tells me, are high resistance. If they're 'popping' the resistance is
too low.

Hope this helps,

73 de Phil - N8PS



Quoting Clayton Brantley via TenTec <tentec at contesting.com>:

> Kim:  I cannot address your question about the lighting issue but I  
> like theremark about theory at the bottom of your email.  I have  
> always like this too:
> If the facts do not conform to the theory, they must be changed.
> Sure do hope some can help with your question!
>
> 73 Clayton N4EV
>
>       From: Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net>
>  To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
>  Sent: Thursday, December 3, 2015 11:18 PM
>  Subject: [TenTec] Way Off Topic, But...
>
> This is way off topic and not radio related, but there are some danged
> smart people that participate on the reflector, so here goes...
>
> It's the holidays and we've put up Christmas lights (mostly incandescent
> series strings) and I'm seeing some very weird affects when I try 
> replacement bulbs. Specifically, when I plug in a replacement bulb of
> ostensibly the correct voltage, it flashes like a strobe and is
> immediately burned out. I tried some higher voltage bulbs, up top 12 V
> and the same thing happens! All I can think of is that the cold
> resistance of the filament is much higher in the replacements than in
> all the other bulbs so that far more voltage appears across the new bulb
> than the others and so the filament vaporizes. Is this what's going on?
> It's very frustrating, to say the least...
>
> 73 & MX,
>
> Kim N5OP
> --
>
> Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP
> SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)
>
> /"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
> practice, there is." //? Attributed to many people; it?s so true that it
> doesn?t matter who said it./
>
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