{"id":17318,"date":"2013-04-08T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-09T01:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17318"},"modified":"2013-04-08T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T01:28:02","slug":"evaporated-tungsten-deposits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/evaporated-tungsten-deposits\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaporated Tungsten Deposits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/aroundthehouse\/various_bits\/IMG_7323.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Burnt out Sylvania 300W incandescent bulb from the garage, including streaked glass which seemed to have occurred when the bulb burned out.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/103809-2\/IMG_7323.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago when I entered the garage I heard a\u00a0noticeable\u00a060 Hz buzz. Since this part of the house contains only fluorescent lighting I was a little confused at what it could be. The noise seemed to be coming from one of the incandescent bulbs on the ceiling; one which was giving off a strangely dim and off-color light.\u00a0Switching the lights off then back on finished off the failing bulb, and it burned out in a typical flash.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not completely sure what was\u00a0occurring, but with quite a bit of darkening (likely condensed metal vapor) on the inside of the bulb and the odd colored light I strongly suspect that a gap had formed in the filament but was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electric_arc\">arcing<\/a>, then on next power cycle the filament blew itself apart.<\/p>\n<p>This bulb is one of two 300W incandescents that I use to illuminate the garage. I&#8217;ve considered putting in some bright, all-temperature fluorescent lighting, but doing that would be considerably more expensive than occasionally installing ceramic sockets and spending $5 every couple of years on a bulb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago when I entered the garage I heard a\u00a0noticeable\u00a060 Hz buzz. Since this part of the house contains only fluorescent lighting I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/04\/08\/evaporated-tungsten-deposits\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Evaporated Tungsten Deposits<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-house","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17320,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17318\/revisions\/17320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}