> Another idea is to take advantage of fixtures that have more
> than one bulb.  A pic and a few SCRs (or replace the pic with
> some discrete components) in the fiture.  It turns the bulbs on
> in series, let's then warm up for half a second, then switches
> them to parallel.

> >>Do you think that would work ? For example, we've got
> >>4 spots in the kitchen. Filaments are obviously very

I should have mentioned that these four spots, probably like
a lot of kitchens, hallways, lounge, etc are on the one switch.
That's not a half-bad idea changing from S to P

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