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Painted Glass Block Landscape Lights (was Glass Drill Bits)
A few weeks ago there was a thread about glass drill bits. I
mentioned I was working on making glass block walkway lights. One is finished. Here are the details: http://www.kissingfrogs.tv/blocklights.html Steve J. Noll | Ventura California | Glass Block Pond http://www.kissingfrogs.tv | Fused Glass/Brick Wall http://www.peltier-info.com/wall.html |
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Good project and excellent report with good details and images.
Minor point - cutting the voltage in half will cut the wattage to a fourth, you are feeding 12.5 watts to each bulb. Your statement that the bulbs will last a long time is extremely correct - thousands of hours. -- Mike Firth Hot Glass Bits Furnace Working Website http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/hotbit46.htm Latest notes "Steve J. Noll" wrote in message ... A few weeks ago there was a thread about glass drill bits. I mentioned I was working on making glass block walkway lights. One is finished. Here are the details: http://www.kissingfrogs.tv/blocklights.html Steve J. Noll | Ventura California | Glass Block Pond http://www.kissingfrogs.tv | Fused Glass/Brick Wall http://www.peltier-info.com/wall.html |
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I can't belived I missed that! I just finished some testing,
measuring current consumption and optical power output and found it actually reduces the wattage to about 1/3. The difference is probably due to the filament not being a fixed resistance but varying with temperature, plus the peak voltage and current are not different - they're just occuring half of the time periods as before. The diode Vf is almost not worth considering. Anyway, not really worth setting up a calorimeter for... On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:30:20 -0500, "Mike Firth" wrote: Good project and excellent report with good details and images. Minor point - cutting the voltage in half will cut the wattage to a fourth, you are feeding 12.5 watts to each bulb. Your statement that the bulbs will last a long time is extremely correct - thousands of hours. -- Mike Firth Hot Glass Bits Furnace Working Website http://users.ticnet.com/mikefirth/hotbit46.htm Latest notes "Steve J. Noll" wrote in message .. . A few weeks ago there was a thread about glass drill bits. I mentioned I was working on making glass block walkway lights. One is finished. Here are the details: http://www.kissingfrogs.tv/blocklights.html Steve J. Noll | Ventura California | Glass Block Pond http://www.kissingfrogs.tv | Fused Glass/Brick Wall http://www.peltier-info.com/wall.html Steve J. Noll | Ventura California | Glass Block Pond http://www.kissingfrogs.tv | Fused Glass/Brick Wall http://www.peltier-info.com/wall.html |
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