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James Sweet
 
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"Bob M." wrote in message
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Yeah, and the reason you don't SEE many of them any more is that they keep
burning out!

Perhaps the way to keep the vintage stuff original would be to put a small
value resistor in series with the bulbs so they last longer. They'd be
dimmer, but put it on a shelf near the ceiling where it's darker anyway

and
maybe no one will notice.

Bob M.


Well yeah, I didn't say incandecent was very practical, but it's cool none
the less. Someone else mentioned this unit has a photocell to dim it when
the room is dark, one could probably just put a variable resistor across or
in series with this to adjust the max brightness, dimming it 20% would
extend lamp life considerably, but then if you get a large quantity of
replacement lamps it'd be pretty easy to just replace them when they burn
out, or group relamp the segments that see the most use.