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From: warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Plug-N'-Power
Message-ID: <178@pluto.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 10-Nov-85 02:55:32 EST
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Summary: Anyone used BSRs at 50Hz and/or 220V? Can wall switch run florescent lamps?


I'm interested in using the BSR units on European power.  Is a Euro-version
available?  I have a feeling that I could hack the power supply, maybe
put higher-rated capacitors between the line and the receiver, and put
a larger triac/relay in there and they would be quite content.  Are the
schematics published anywhere?

The wall switch says "for incandescent lamps only" on it.  I know you can't
run florescents on a dimmer, but will they work if you only try to turn
them full on?  (Amazing, the things they don't teach you in Columbia's
EE program.  I know a guy who managed to graduate without learning how
to use a scope, but that's another story.)