RE: Re: LW10 and candle bulb

["Rodney Hall" <rmh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Malcolm-Smith [mailto:rich@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 6:50 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: LW10 and candle bulb

> Rodney Hall wrote:
>
> >>You may be better with an appliance module (relay) for these
> >>- if the
> >>wattage is low - I had to do this with one of those 'pygmy'
> >>bulbs I was
> >>using as a night light - it wouldn't switch on a lamp dimmer
> >>module.  If
> >>it were me I'd try it and see on the LW10 first  though - I
> wouldn't
> >>expect it to damage it but no guarantee !
>
> They will glow just on the leakage based on the neon figure
> bulbs I have tried
> to X10
>
> Problems went away when a normal bulb was put in parallel
> with it however. I
> uses a 7w night light


No I didn't

I wrote:-
Those flickering lamps are basically neon lamps and will not damage the
LW10, but the wattage is *very* low and an appliance module (relay) is
really what you want, as Kevin says.
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Rodney Hall
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