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    Question about Rayovac 15 minute charger????

    [ QUOTE ] illumiGeek said: The charger is not smart; it's the batteries. The batteries have an internal switch to momentarily disconnect them from the charging circuit when they are almost fully charged (no fast charger completely tops the batteries off). The only "smart" thing about the...
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    Do european cars use 12v cig lighters plugs?

    Ya' gotta' go *way* back in time to find a British car with 6V, so, unless your car is owned by some odd collector. BTW, when I was in europe last--Germany and Austria--everything was 12V. My european made car is 12V. So, I'm guessing you'll be just fine.
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    Nuclear pumped Laser

    Building such a laser is, of course, a moral imperative.
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    How many of you use CFL's? and of what wattage?

    Re: How many of you use CFL\'s? and of what wattage Ahhh, okay, so it's not a '3-way', but a 3 setting dimming fixture. Odd that the Philips bulb doesn't work in it. I wonder how they're doing the dimming. For the normal in wall dimmer I have in my bedroom, the philips bulbs work just...
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    More Arc5 information.. (proto photos inside)

    Re: Next gen tint control...what the? That and the phosphor is not linear under high flux conditions, so the red/yellow/green output shifts vs the blue output with changing current. So, if the peak current is held constant, the tint will hold constant as well. Brightness is varied by varying...
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    More Arc5 information.. (proto photos inside)

    Re: Next gen tint control...what the? [ QUOTE ] James S said: Don't worry, someday he'll have to work on some of his own code that is old enough that he won't remember it [/ QUOTE ] Worse yet, I've worked on other peoples code that they don't remember. I've never really found that to be a...
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    More Arc5 information.. (proto photos inside)

    Re: Next gen tint control...what the? > Your attitude causes tremendous problems for others - both > coders who take over your projects and employers who have > to eat the expense of supporting your "self-documenting" > code. There are some kind of code that need certain degrees of...
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    How many of you use CFL's? and of what wattage?

    Re: How many of you use CFL\'s? and of what wattage I use a 7W CCFT for the security light on my front porch. It's an ungodly high color temperature bulb--some 7000K. In daylight it looks very nice, but at night, it takes on a strong blue/green tint, but being so dim (7W), it doesn't hurt my...
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    More Arc5 information.. (proto photos inside)

    What a bunch of pansies! The code *is* the documentation. If you cannot read the documentation than you are not a programmer. Making the documentation separate from the code just provides one more place for errors to creep in. Let me disspell this silly 'maintainable' nonsense right here...
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    LED's appearing in unexpected places

    Re: LED\'s appearing in unexpected places [ QUOTE ] PhotonWrangler said: However if I was the designer, I would design it with a lockout so that the driver couldn't mess with the color controls while the car was in motion. [/ QUOTE ] That's easy, my car only lets me adjust certain...
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    How many of you use CFL's? and of what wattage?

    Re: How many of you use CFL\'s? and of what wattage [ QUOTE ] PhotonWrangler said: I think the "dimmable" moniker on the Philips package mostly means that a dimmer won't fry the electronics. [/ QUOTE ] dimmable means that you can use it on a dimmer and that it will vary brightness with the...
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    How many of you use CFL's? and of what wattage?

    Re: How many of you use CFL\'s? and of what wattage [ QUOTE ] IlluminatingBikr said: Oh, I forgot to add something. We have a 55W (actual wattage ) CFL in our garage. It took the place of a 100W bulb, that screws into a mount that's on the side of the wall, next to the door that goes from the...
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    Rayovac 15 minute charger ..... final verdict?

    I can confirm this. I just called ROV customer support and asked if a car cord for the PS6 was going to be made available at some point. She said that, yes, one was available and that you could call and ask for one. She said that since they were being packaged with newer chargers, she...
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    Really tiny PIC microcontroller announced!!!

    Actually, there is an 8 pin version of the SOT-23 out there, so there might be home--if these guys sell well--to migrate some of the other current 8 pin parts into that package. That would assume that their die sizes are small enough to fit in the lead frame. That might be an issue. SOT-23...
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    How bright is a 400 watt metal halide?

    I have a 400W MH HID bulb/fixture in my garage attic--until I find a better place for it. ( I was putting in some insulation up there when it arrived and I needed *some* light. Woah...) Let's say that it lights up my 12x25' attic almost like daylight. You cannot look at the bulb directly...
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