Andrew Gabriel
wibbled on Saturday 17 October 2009 10:57

In article ,
Tim W writes:


http://www.qvsdirect.com/Circular-Fl...-pr-16736.html

It's *so* 1960's.

One style I saw a lot of in the US in the 1960's was a nest of 2 or 3
different sized circular tubes inside each other with the inner ones
slightly lower forming a cone of tubes. I rather liked those at the
time, but I've never seen them here. Only other place I ever saw them
was in a bar-come-cafe in France. The US circular tubes go one size
smaller than we have here -- I think their smallest is 20W -- which
makes such a design more practical. They also have single ballasts
which are desiged to run multiple different power circular tubes too.


That's interesting.

I think it's time to start googling around the EU - and take advantage of
harmonisation. Someone on 230V must have a decent design available as it's
patently possible to get creative with the tubes...

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Tim Watts

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