Bright from the Start: GE's very odd light bulb
Added 2024-03-30 22:29:32 +0000 UTCGood (time period)!
I've got a new video for ya today, and it was possible thanks to you in more ways than one! I was getting stuck in my research on why exactly enclosed CFLs had such poopy cold start performance, and folks in the Discord server were able to hook me up with a paper which confirmed the thread I was pulling on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcH0j7tOrDA
As ever, this started out more simply than it ended up being. But in many ways this is a classic episode - while this is ostensibly about this weird light bulb, you'll learn a lot about fluorescent light technology (as I did, too!)
I was thinking I might release this tomorrow but that might be in poor taste. So I'll hold off until Monday and be an anti-April Fools person. I may work on captions tonight if I have time but that might have to wait until tomorrow.
toodles
Comments
Hi Alec. A great (potential) follow up on the whole subject of CFL's would be how they made them (and also strip lights) dimmable. I still have the first ever dimmable CFL which had to have an associated specific dimmer with it. How did they achieve that? https://www.varilight.co.uk/lighting/dimmer-dimmable-cfls.php
Colin Grimshaw
2024-04-03 09:03:37 +0000 UTCExcellent! I learned a LOT.
Donald J Arndt
2024-04-01 13:31:03 +0000 UTC
