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Article: Top responses to our January side jobs on 3-way light bulb flicker.
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- Designfax
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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I personally installed a dimmer switch on my problematic lamps and now just run a standard 150W bulb and get any level of light I wish. Another idea comes from those soft-start discs that you place in between the bulb and the socket. If energized once you get 1/3 of output from the bulb, shut off the lamp and energize again and get 2/3, and so on, or any fraction of output that would scroll through the range and then back to the start. This way you only need a standard on/off switch and standard bulbs.
Ronald A. Moner, Parker Hannifin
The lamp output is controlled by selecting the taps on the element from series to parallel. ...