Comment on [Technology Connections] Induction lamps: fluorescent lighting's final form [30:05]
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
My question is if we could attach an induction loop to a standard T8 bulb. If a bulb has burned out its electrical contacts, perhaps it could still be reused as it is.
I’d guess that even if it were possible, it needs a lot of special electronics. Not worth the effort compared to getting an LED bulb.
czardestructo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Likely. The coils only job is to ignite the lamp by whacking it with high voltage to strip some barium elections off to induce plasma and therefore electrical flow. After that the coils could just be stubs of wire to keep current flowing through the excited plasma. If you did it inductively it would achieve the same means but I don’t think the plasma would be as dense so the lamp not as bright. My theory anyways.