Andrew Gabriel wrote:

Dimming incandescent lamps makes them far less efficient
then even the poor efficiency of running them at full
power gives you.

Although might be worth pointing out that while the efficiency falls, so
does the power consumption - just not as fast.

--
Cheers,

John.

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