Post 3 made on Wednesday October 14, 1998 at 13:13 |
Daniel Tonks Historic Forum Post |
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Hmm, this brings to mind something completely unrelated, but I can only use Philips incandescent light bulbs in my house.
Why? Well, my house has a lot of dimmer switches and I have extremely sensitive hearing. Light bulbs tend to make a "buzzing" sound when the power going to them is dimmed, usually anything lower than 90% of norm. I have a 5-bulb light fixture above a card table, and since it was too bright with 5 - 60w bulbs, I put a good quality dimmer on it. Well, one night when playing I dimmed it down a bit, and due to the loud-loud-loud buzzing sound I got an incredable headache. Everyone else could barely hear it.
Quite by accident, I discovered that Philips bulbs do not make ANY audible buzzing sound no matter how they're dimmed. And since my local Costco recently switched to Philips bulbs my life's been made a little bit easier....
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