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tall halogen lamps with a dimmer knob on them
Mr. Dorsey now has me thinking about dimmer stuff.
Are those tall halogen lamps with a circular top bad news in a studio? I'm talking about the basic lamps you can buy at Home Depot and they have a little knob on the pole to adjust the brightness of the halogen lamp. |
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tall halogen lamps with a dimmer knob on them
They could be. But they typically are resistive dimmers as opposed to inductive dimmers so they may not cause as much of a problem. Just my bit anyway. J -- josh.snider cave.productions 416.524.6927 in article , xy at wrote on 9/4/03 23.00: Mr. Dorsey now has me thinking about dimmer stuff. Are those tall halogen lamps with a circular top bad news in a studio? I'm talking about the basic lamps you can buy at Home Depot and they have a little knob on the pole to adjust the brightness of the halogen lamp. |
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tall halogen lamps with a dimmer knob on them
xy wrote:
Mr. Dorsey now has me thinking about dimmer stuff. Are those tall halogen lamps with a circular top bad news in a studio? I'm talking about the basic lamps you can buy at Home Depot and they have a little knob on the pole to adjust the brightness of the halogen lamp. The dimmers in them are bad news, but the lamps themselves run at 120V so you can bypass the dimmer and just run them full-on. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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tall halogen lamps with a dimmer knob on them
xy wrote:
Are those tall halogen lamps with a circular top bad news in a studio? I'm talking about the basic lamps you can buy at Home Depot and they have a little knob on the pole to adjust the brightness of the halogen lamp. Halogen torchieres? Not an issue except for the aforementioned crappy dimmers, their fairly high heat output in most cases--and the accompanying tendency to burn down the building when they tip over. |
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tall halogen lamps with a dimmer knob on them
"Josh Snider" wrote ...
They could be. But they typically are resistive dimmers as opposed to inductive dimmers so they may not cause as much of a problem. All the ones I've ever seen were phase-angle, "hash"- producing SCR dimmers. You can't dim those 100s of watts with that tiny little pot (and no heat generation!) |
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tall halogen lamps with a dimmer knob on them
Yes, they're bad news. They hum like crazy. They're also incredibly
inefficient. 300W bulbs blasting at the ceiling, but you're not looking at the ceiling. What I'm really into lately are the little high-efficiency fluorescents that screw into incandescent fixtures. Unlike the big old fluorescent tubes, these things don't make noise (unles you try to put them on a dimmer, then they freak out). They put out a much more attractive color of light than either incandescents or the old-fashioned tubes too, and if you do the math you see the energy cost savings far outweighs the purchase cost difference. And most importantly, they do more than their share to ween us off of Dick Cheney's greasy tits. Eerie, an incandescent bulb just popped while I was typing this. ulysses In article , xy wrote: Mr. Dorsey now has me thinking about dimmer stuff. Are those tall halogen lamps with a circular top bad news in a studio? I'm talking about the basic lamps you can buy at Home Depot and they have a little knob on the pole to adjust the brightness of the halogen lamp. |
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tall halogen lamps with a dimmer knob on them
Jay Kadis wrote:
The ones I had sent noise over the power circuit if the dimmer was used. Full on they were OK. They also burned up within a year. That's right, they're also unreliable. I've got two of them sitting around that I don't use (had three), and they go through expensive bulbs quickly, as well as the dimmer circuitry has an annoying tendency to crap out and require replacement. You can buy replacements fairly cheap, but I see no reason to get these two lamps going again with everything else stacked against them. ulysses |