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Arfa Daily wrote:

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Based on what you are saying, there is no reason why a low voltage 50
watt car bulb, should heat any slower than a 50w 240v bulb, but obviously
it does, as the ramp up time can be very clearly seen on them.

Anybody over there got a photodiode, a storage 'scope, and the time to
hook 'em together to have a look at just how long the time delay is? Once
that was known, I could do the same here to get a rough comparison.

Sure, but getting to it is the issue; I had promised to run remote
controls
near a radio receiver to listen for RFI too and haven't got to that
either.
Perhaps this weekend; if done I'll post the results and a link to an image
file for the waveform.

Michael


I know what you mean. I think that the older you get, the less inclined you
become to actually getting off your arse and doing these things ... I have a
graphic LCD panel sitting here on the table by the side of me. There is a
board that I built hooked to it, and I have a proper professional IDE /
compiler installed on the computer. I found some routines on the net,
imported them to the IDE and compiled them and loaded them up to the PIC. It
sort of worked, but there is some issue with there being both a vertical and
a horizontal 'echo'. Could be hardware. Could be software. And there it has
sat for at least 2 years. I was really enthusiastic when I started on the
project. Now, I can't even be fagged to look a bit deeper into the routines,
to see if I can write a simple diagnostic to prove out the hardware. Very
sad really. Actually, all I want to do right now, is jet off to sunny
Florida, on holiday ... :-)

Arfa