Incandescent heating lamp from laser printer, uses?

[Illum]

same disassembly as http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?p=2011491#post2011491
thought I split my questions up for different forums.

this lamp was found to be housed inside a metal pipe and a high temperature rubber roller intended to feed paper between the heater and the toner cartridge.
not sure what I can do with it
heres a couple pics

Lamp and driver circuit, by the way it was built it wasnt intended to be taken apart, so I cut a few wires in the process of disassembly

theres this cute little gadget attached to the blue length of the wire, kinda hard to describe, about the width of a dime, about less than half an inch high, huge terminals with screw holes and when you shake it theres this slight rattle, cant figure out what it is other than the fact its not a ballast.

its not the thermal fuse either, which is mounted above the metal lamp enclosure reading "fuse 192 C"

any ideas?
the laser printer is a fax/scanner/printer/copier made by Brother, model MFC-6800

 

[RickB]

I have no idea what to do with the lamp. But my guess for the other doohickey is a cut-off switch that will cut power if the unit turns over.

-Rick

 

[DM51]

That looks like a huge long coiled filament in the tube. Most tube-shaped incan lamps have single-strand (straight) filaments. Is this just a heating coil? My guess is with the right voltage it will just glow red and get hot.

Don't know about the other gizmo, but maybe RickB is right - these things have safety switch-off mechanisms for example when you open up the lid or the toner cartridge compartment.

 

[Illum]

That looks like a huge long coiled filament in the tube. Most tube-shaped incan lamps have single-strand (straight) filaments. Is this just a heating coil? My guess is with the right voltage it will just glow red and get hot.

Don't know about the other gizmo, but maybe RickB is right - these things have safety switch-off mechanisms for example when you open up the lid or the toner cartridge compartment.

that was its purpose, to heat the paper before it gets processed to the toners, the lamp is entirely housed in a metal tube.....I dont think theres a need to using it, instead its on the shelf with my high pressure sodium lamp...which I dont have a use for

 

[zhuntai]

Hmmm... maybe you could built it into some other sort of devices... like a laser printer

 

[cdosrun]

The lamps light up quite brightly when running in a laser fuser unit. The device you are wondering about might be a thermostat to ensure the fuser rollers run at the correct temperature. As suggested above, it could be an additional cutout, it looks very much like a temperature sensing device (for cutoff or thermostatic control).

Having looked again, I think it is a second high temperature cut-out device in case there is a paper jam, to prevent the paper singing etc.

Andrew