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60W -> 250W Tungsten Overrun

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Tim:
Forgive my ignorance here, but what is the purpose of over driving these lamps if their useful life is cut down to two hours?  Experimentation and curiosity I assume?  I'm not up on store bought bulb prices, but the halogen capsule lamps seem like a waste of $ to destroy, or no?  Please enlighten me!  :-o

pSlawinski:
Yes, this was for the sake of experimentation.  I am changing most of my incandescent lamps to compact fluorescent lamps.  Instead of throwing the perfectly good lamp away I decided to ruin it first.  It is also a lot of fun to see a large amount of light pouring out of something that usually isn’t very bright at all.  I do not know exactly how long this lamp will last when overrun because when I started overrunning the lamp it already had a few hours of normal usage on it.  These cost about $2.00 without tax last time I checked.

Tim:
Hey Phillip,

Thanks for explaining, I understand now? :lol:? Nice pictures too above!

mr_big:
If you try to overrun one of the little 12v halogen capsules they may explode I have tried overrunnig one before and it glowed brightly for a few seconds and then exploded

pSlawinski:
The only low voltage lamp I have overrun is a little flashight bulb.? I do not have a good low voltage power supply.? I also don't have any 12v Halogen capsules.? I like discharge lamps more than incandescent lamps so I don't really really have that many incandescent lamps.

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