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Default CFL = what ??


"John Larkin"

The dimmable ones I saw also claimed 0.9 power factor. So the
front-end isn't the conventional diode+filter cap, it must be a
PFC-type tracking boost converter. There's probably a bridge
rectifier, inductor, boost converter fet, diode, cap, and a smart IC
in the front end.



** Hardly compatible with a variable, chopped sine wave input that rises to
340 volts in 1 uS.



....... Phil