Date:         Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:55:06 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Vitrifrigo light lens hole
Comments: To: Richard A Jones <jones@COLORADO.EDU>
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At 01:02 PM 3/21/2009, Richard A Jones wrote:
>still had 115V power, the light stays on a long time,
>and....  Vitri owners: you have been warned.

No doubt it was the moths, chewing their way in to get to the
light.  Cunning devils. :-)

Heat burden is always the *last* thing that manufacturers
address.  Makes the thermal engineers depressed sometimes, but of
course they get the big consulting fees to fix it after the thing is built.

And that crystal lens for the Westy halogen interior light isn't
immune to a spot of deformation, either -- and it certainly never got
left on all night.  Not to mention the shocking price that GE wants
for the specified lamp.  We quit using it after we got an 11-watt CF
PAR-type narrow flood lamp to run with an inverter.  With a clip-on
gooseneck fixture it hung in the rafters to light the whole cabin, or
clip to the shelf for cooking/reading/whatever.  Half again the
amount of much more pleasing light for half the drain.  Only
disadvantage was the cord.


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David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'89 Po' White Star "Scamp"