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Really dumb question of the day...
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Last night I got to thinking about 3 way light bulbs - don't ask me
why, I donno. Anyway, I believe inside it is 3 filements - one for each brightness, okay, I understand that. One the base of the bulb is two contacts like a normal bulb. The switch has four positions - off, on1, on 2, and on 3. I have not looked inside a 3 switch/socket, but there can't be too much in there as there isn't much room. How does it work? Like I said, dumb question of the day :-( Chris |
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Stefan Trethan
Inside are two filaments of differnt wattage.
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Each contact goes to one filament, the reurn is the base. low wattage filament - low high wattage filament - medium both filaments - high. that's what i think. Such bulbs are not sold here. ST On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:41:07 +0200, lcdpublishing <lcdpublishing@...> wrote:
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Nelson Johnsrud
You are correct (as usual). That is just the way it works. There are two contacts side-by-side in the center of the bulb socket for one end of each filament, and the threaded outer portion is the common for the other ends of the filaments (this end is the non-switched side, directly connected to the power source). The switch selects first the low wattage filament, then the high wattage filament, then both, then off.
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Nels Stefan Trethan wrote: Inside are two filaments of differnt wattage. |
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Roy J. Tellason
On Wednesday 26 April 2006 09:41 am, lcdpublishing wrote:
Last night I got to thinking about 3 way light bulbs - don't ask meNo, only 2 filaments, that are both on for the brightest setting. okay, I understand that. One the base of the bulb is two contacts likeThe lower-power is turned on first, then the medium power, and both for the brightest setting. I haven't had any of these around for a loooong time. I don't like them much. And you always had one filament burn out before the other, too. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin |
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýIn a message dated 4/26/2006 8:52:48 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
lcdpublishing@... writes:
Anyway, I believe inside it is 3 filements - one for each brightness, NO!? Just two!? One for DIMMEST; the second for
BRIGHTER; and BOTH for BRIGHTEST.?
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