On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 20:05:50 -0800 (PST), George Herold
wrote:

On Mar 2, 6:53*pm, John Fields wrote:
On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:34:55 -0800 (PST), George Herold

wrote:
Thanks John, *I must admit it's hard to understand how a 3 watt 100k
ohm resistor across the 240 V lines would blow even if everything down
stream of it was shorted. (As your calculation shows.) * A new circuit
board is in the mail, but this won't solve the mystery. *The board has
been redesigned and is no longer analog but digital. *Once I put the
new board in I'll look at the busted one and see if I can figure
anything out.

Say could you resend that link to the neon bulb I-V curve? *What ever
you posted got turned into gobble-de-gook by google.

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Ah, Google...

Google groups doesn't support binaries so I'll email it to you.

JF

Wow. Thanks John

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You're welcome. :-)

If you're interested in neon glow lamps, GE's 1965 glow lamp manual
(pretty much the Bible) is he

http://www.donsbulbs.com/cgi-bin/r/t.pl/library.html

JF