The Z Bomb - Printable Version
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The Z Bomb - TheUniversalDave1 - 09-02-2015
This is just a little drawing I whipped up to help advertise the serious power lurking inside the Zenith 8-S-563. I drew this completely freehanded in about half an hour. The lighting is two 40 watt mercury vapor lamps.
RE: The Z Bomb - Fred Taylor - 09-02-2015
(09-02-2015, 09:57 PM)TheUniversalDave1 Wrote: This is just a little drawing I whipped up to help advertise the serious power lurking inside the Zenith 8-S-563. I drew this completely freehanded in about half an hour. The lighting is two 40 watt mercury vapor lamps.
Where is the mushroom cloud?
RE: The Z Bomb - TheUniversalDave1 - 09-02-2015
I already fanned it away for the picture.
RE: The Z Bomb - OldRestorer - 09-02-2015
I actually understood this!!!!
I am learning,
You need practice..... or a ruler
Me
RE: The Z Bomb - TheUniversalDave1 - 09-02-2015
If you understand it can you explain it to me, please? Because I have no clue what it means.
RE: The Z Bomb - PhilcoJohn - 09-03-2015
Yes Lucy explain!!
RE: The Z Bomb - OldRestorer - 09-03-2015
Really?
I'M the smart one??????
Hold H**l, Mark your calenders!
A Mercury vapor lamp is meant to burn much brighter than a standard bulb. Especially high pressure lamps.
Are these new bulbs? These bulbs need a burn in period when first lit. At least an hour and they can be brighter in the beginning. They can burn 10-100 times brighter.
Another thing can be the Ballast having an issue.
This is not set up as a Dim bulb tester right? If that is the case then there may be a short in the DUT but I am pretty sure in a darker room with light walls it is just the bulb.
Now watch me be wrong and get blown out of the water
Me
RE: The Z Bomb - TheUniversalDave1 - 09-03-2015
This fixture has been working fine for a year and a half.
RE: The Z Bomb - morzh - 09-03-2015
The two light globes look like....you know what.
