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Subject: Re: Bubble sextant instructions
From: Rodney Myrvaagnes (rodneym@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 18:38:29 EST
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:06:27 -0500, Craig wrote:
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>You may be describing what is known as a "wheat bulb", because it is the
>size of a grain of wheat. Old technology, been around since WWII, after
No, they are much larger than that. The base is about 4 mm diameter (eyeball, I didn't caliper). The bulbs I knew as "grain of wheat"
didn't even have bases, just a pair of fine wires fused into the glass.
That is why I identified the particular sextant. It may be that the original message was about one that did use 'gow' bulbs. It would not
be at all difficult to mount LEDs in the bulb bases in my sextant.
Rodney Myrvaagnes J36 Gjo/a
Contributing Editor Electronic Products
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