"BigWallop" wrote in message
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"doozer" wrote in message
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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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doozer writes:

Tim Mitchell wrote:

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warm-up time (before it died), a xenon lamp.


It comes on just about straight away and then takes maybe 30 seconds to
get to full power. It's hard to take photos of something that is
mirrored hence the poor quality. Internally it is basically just two
wires that touch together. The bulb is about 75mm x 55mm although I
haven't taken it out of the housing so there is some error in that
measurement. There is certainly no spherical bulge in the middle the
face is perfectly flat.



I knew I'd seen it somewhere, and here it is:

http://www.research.philips.com/prof...chers/uhp.html

Well worth watching the video stream.

I like the bit "... we extend the lifetime up to 20.000 hours making
consumer products realistic."
I know he says twenty thousand hours in the wmv, but maybe they really meant
20.0 as per the text.