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What is this ?? Dummy Load perhaps?
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Terry S
2017-09-29 23:49:49 UTC
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https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/atq/d/old-radio-antennae-tester/6325383340.html

Uses light bulbs and has an RF connector. You tell me.

Terry
Jim Elfelt
2017-09-30 18:48:42 UTC
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Post by Terry S
https://minneapolis.craigslist.org/ank/atq/d/old-radio-antennae-tester/6325383340.html
Uses light bulbs and has an RF connector. You tell me.
Terry
I've seen this beast before. As I recall from the label plate, it's a 1,000 watt dummy load. An acquaintance of mine found it years ago when cleaning out the basement of a deceased amateur operator who had once been the lead engineer at the 50 kw WCCO-AM transmitter station located near Anoka, MN.

Jim
Terry S
2017-10-02 00:58:46 UTC
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That makes perfect sense, Anoka is right next to Andover. Perhaps this is your acquaintance selling the item.
Terry S
2017-10-02 13:47:25 UTC
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Kinda thinking I could convert this into quite a cool early industrial age hanging lamp, hung from rusty chains upside down in the garage. Might not throw much light through all that sheet metal, but it would look awesome.
Peter Wieck
2017-10-02 13:51:31 UTC
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Post by Terry S
Kinda thinking I could convert this into quite a cool early industrial age hanging lamp, hung from rusty chains upside down in the garage. Might not throw much light through all that sheet metal, but it would look awesome.
Set an LED element just above each hole in the metal - as much light as you want...

http://www.ledsupply.com/leds/cree-xlamp-xm-l2-leds?gclid=Cj0KCQjwx8fOBRD7ARIsAPVq-Nk81QqSHHT0Ko_j-bi9rT_vKT72jvqqzkPFhbezqVnOS_xS44Fa4OIaAps-EALw_wcB

It would look a bit like a spaceship landing.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA
Terry S
2017-10-02 14:14:14 UTC
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A few years back I was designing light fixture PCBs on a contract/consulting basis for a local company that was (still is) in the Li-fi business, (wifi over lighting) and as such, I worked with these LEDs and similar LEDs from other vendors such as Philips. They are truly amazing devices but must be designed in with great care. There are far too many 2-bit companies slapping these things into light bulbs, auto bulbs, flashlights, and a hundred other applications, all without the engineering expertise to make them work correctly and over the long term. That is why I am so skeptical about the plethora of cheap (mostly China sourced) LED light bulbs now invading your local Home Depot and the web.

Most of those bulbs are really poorly designed from a thermal standpoint as well as optically. The LEDs have stringent power supply and thermal transfer requirement, and those are mostly ignored by the designers. I expect they will not meet their claimed lifetimes or light outputs over the long run, and some will die spectacularly, possibly even dangerously.

So you are talking to one of a very few PCB designers that actually has the expertise to make this work..... but frankly I dislike the idea.... and I'd rather just populate the fixture with lower wattage warm incandescent lamps and let 'er glow.....

Terry
Peter Wieck
2017-10-02 15:25:13 UTC
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(I did refer you to Cree. And not Crap.)

I dunno. Half-a-dozen emitters at 2700K would be quite warm.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA
Terry S
2017-10-02 16:38:56 UTC
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Post by Peter Wieck
(I did refer you to Cree. And not Crap.)
I dunno. Half-a-dozen emitters at 2700K would be quite warm.
Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA
I wasn't implying Cree was crap - at all - but the implementations of these, similar, knock-off, and downright poor LED products are very often crap, as put into consumer products. Usually the Cree LEDs themselves are too expensive to end up in junk bulbs. The Cree branded LED bulbs are very good.

I'm actually a big fan of Cree and Philips LED products. They are the two major hi-q suppliers.
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