Am Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:14:17 GMT schrieb Rich the Newsgroup Wacko
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On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:49:24 -0500, Jon Yaeger wrote:

Take apart a couple of D cell carbon-zinc batteries.

Wash off the carbon rods. Put each in a wooden clothes pin and connect
the
attached ends to the mains voltage (US customers only, please).

Tap the free ends of the rods together. Move them apart as necessary.
Very
bright! Much brighter than you are.

I put mine in series with Mom's iron, but the thermostat kept turning
it off.
One time I used an old Iron as a dummy-load for a 230V/1kW TRIAC power
control circuit (we had it in the lab for improvised BGA soldering). To
"satisfy" the thermostat I used a 30cm room fan.


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Martin