WATTS:
wot I say is that watts is watts. If the man said his battery will
light two 100 watt bulbs for a certain number of hours, it remains more or
less true regardless of the quality of the 100 watt bulbs. And four each
at 50 watts would be the same..... etc.. Watts are like dollars they are
the same regardless how wisely you spend them .
The significant differance changing kind of bulbs can provide is the amount
of visable light per watt. Incandecent bulbs provide most of their radiation
in the form of heat. Florescent light will provide many time the visable light
per watt. Or many times the number of hours per amount of light.
12v florescent lights are not too expensive from RV-trailer supply catalogues,
or better yet J.C.Whitney. You can even get florescent drop lights.
My brother-in-law has a house on the big island(Hawaii). In that area of the
island only the towns have electric power. Many of the houses that are out of
town are powered by 12 volt batterys which are brought into town regularly to
be charged. In town the local service station has dozens of batteries charging
at any time.
NAMES:
| From: lrc@red4est.felton.ca.us
| Subject: naming cars
| I have always named my cars.
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| My first car, a '69 Austin Asparagus was the Limey Lemon
| My 2nd, a "free" '68 Newport was Chryslersaurus Wrex
not wrecks??????
| I keep trying to convince Jack to name his ex-ambulance tow vehicle
| Gloria Monday, as in "Sick Transit Gloria Monday"
so what kind of transit would that make my bus?
regards/dick
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