Roman wrote:

>> And, of course, my 100W GE light bulbs always seems to
>> go pffffft right when I turn on the light switch. I am
>> sure that GE designs the cold resistance of the filaments
>> in such as way as to maximize the retirement payoff for
>> Jack Welch.
>
>
>Hi Dan, yep Jinx had an excellent chart of bulb
>life and voltage. I posted some calcs here a while
>back showing that in 240vac countries the 60w globes
>get 4x or more the startup current than in 110v countries,
>and why adding a 5% volts drop resistor gives almost
>infinite bulb life.
>

Roman, fantastic, so 5% is all it takes?

And I wonder - are the guys selling bulbs outside the US
mainly subsidiaries of american conglomerates like GE?
This would explain a lot.

- dan

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