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October 07, 2009
Helpful Hints from joeeze: Light bulb hack
For once, something I thought of myself.
For days I've been annoyed by the fact that a ceiling socket that always features a 150 watt bulb has been downgraded to a temporary 100 watt iteration while I scour Charlottesville (and Amazon) for some more 150s.
Turns out none of my usual suspects (Kroger, CVS, Harris Teeter) have 150s in stock and Amazon's sole vendor offers delivery in 2-3 weeks.
Sold, but what about now?
The reason I instantly ordered from Amazon was because you never know if you'll find any locally, and that way eventually some will come and in the long run I'll use them so no matter, and if I haven't sourced any nearby at least I'll have those.
But then yesterday I had an idea: why not try a 50-100-150 three-way bulb in the socket?
As I recall, whenever a three-way bulb blows its usually one of the lower wattage filaments, and the bulb reverts to its highest wattage.
So.
I replaced the 100 watt bulb with one of the aforementioned three-ways and voilà: 150 watts of beautiful reading brightness.
Style me "delighted."
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It is the 1st time I ever saw a bulb like that and I am not a technically dumb person.
What is it for? How does it work?
Posted by: Tomasso | Oct 8, 2009 5:53:21 AM
Uh... A 50-100-150 Watt bulb has two filaments, 50 and 100: in a 3-way socket, it will light 50, then off that and fire up 100, then add back the 50. In a 1-way socket, both will usually be on - depends on structure of the socket, but most single-type sockets spread the single contact widely enough to hit both contacts on a 3-way bulb.
Posted by: teqjack | Oct 7, 2009 7:31:18 PM
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