[Rhodes22-list] Environment -- dimming bulbs

[Joseph Hadzima]

so what happened to all the high hopes for LED lighting,
did General Electric & Sylvania Lighting pay off someone?


--- Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:

> Hank, you have put your finger on a huge potential
> market.
> 
> Theoretically, with chopper circuits and pulsed output,
> you could make a florescent bulb that would be dimmable.
> 
> Since many dimmers use SCRs (silicon controled
> rectifiers)
> which do not put out the same form of alternating current
> that the existing coil bulbs expect, the design would 
> take some work.
> 
> It may be a while before dimmable coil bulbs come to
> market,
> but when they do...
> 
> /Robert
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