Comments by "Bill Kitchen" (@bill-2018) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. Yes, I'd use them too. No point in throwing away perfectly healthy bulbs.
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  2. I bought EverReady and they are bright enough at 13.2 Watts equivalent to 100 Watt. Warm white too it says on the box..
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  3. The early ones were a horrible cold harsh light. Not at all pleasant.
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  4. My early CFL's and LED ones lasted only two or three years but the later ones got better and cheaper.
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  5. My earliest ones did after about two years but these now have been going for six years, if not more.
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  6. I never had that with them.
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  7. If a time machine could be made would a person be able to use it? If you went back 100 years you wouldn't have been born so you wouldn't exist to make a time machine. Would you at the time of your birth just cease to exist? Would the time machine also cease to exist?
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  8. I got my hurricane lamp when my uncle died and I was aged about 7 or 8 so that's 58/59 years ago. He would have used it in his large black wooden chicken shed. We call it paraffin. At some point I painted it with blue Hammerite paint. It is of the older open top design.
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  9. Too many ads. I'm switching off.
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  10. Some were horribly noisy on radio frequencies, as were some LED types too. Awful things. The ones I have seemed okay so I bought six more because at 11 Watt equivalent to 50 Watt at 10p each was a bargain. I think they were clearing them out to stock LED bulbs. Ten years later I think I'll give four away that still leaves me three as replacements for the three I'm using then I'll go LED. My LED ones are okay. The early ones I bought only lasted about two or three years but the ones I have now are doing great, probably six years. G4GHB.
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  11. When I was a teenager I found in our garden an aluminium disc about 10 inches in diameter with holes drilled in it in a spiral just like this. I only realised years later after we had moved that it must be a Nipkow disc. I wonder who lived in this house previously and had a mechanical television or maybe attempted to make one.
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  12. I first saw one of these in the physics lab when I started secondary school. They are interesting. I never knew about them going backwards. I bought one about 12 years ago but my cat knocked it over and bent the vanes. My next was about 4 years ago but that arrived with bent vanes, the company replaced it free of charge. Spinning merrily every day.
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  13. Industry uses lead free solder now. I prefer and use leaded solder for my hobby. It re-solders better if I'm developing a circuit and need to make changes. G4GHB.
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