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{\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.21.2509;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\sb100\sa100\f0\fs24 It's yellow! It's white! It's yellow! It's
white! It's yellow! It's - kind of blue. Very interesting! Just wanted to show you what
I've found - this is the Philips 12.5 Watt dimmable 60Watt (equivalent) bulb. I've already
started to take it apart here, and - I'm going to pop this off here, just so you can see
what's inside - what makes this thing tick, and why are they doing this. I don't recommend
doing this at home!\line Now - inside the bulb, you can see we have six SMD LEDs - I
always like SMD's. They tend to be a lot more reliable.\line They have a plastic case on
top of this. This is actually clipped into place, and screwed in.\line Underneath here,
is a small PC board, with a thermal conductive pad underneath that.\line It's pressed up
against this aluminum or what ever kind of metal this is, just as a heat sink.\line Hopefully
I'm not going to ruin my camera, but - I'm going to shield my eyes. \line You can see
it's actually blue light, I don't know if you can see it or not - I'm not looking in
the camera, but it is actually blue light that's coming through there.\line The blue
light - which is extremely bright - don't look at this - at least not "live" - on camera
it should be okay, the blue and the yellow seems to be what's making that white light.
Now why they do this, I do not know, although I'm sure it has something to do with financial
reasons as well as - being able to create a very bright, very white, warm white light.
This is Andrew Perkins from Dabblings.net.\line Now the Philips bulb in a torchier, or however
you pronounce it, actually comes out quite nice, there's not a lot of - you don't see
the shadows - from the heat sink. It works out very well - very nicely.\line The downside
as you can see by this light up here - is - what we used to have a problem with, with
fluorescents which is - when you turn it on, it takes just a little time, about a third
of a second.\line It can be annoying but - for the amount of savings you have and if you're
going to put it in a light that's up and far away, something you don't want to have to
replace a whole lot, going up and down ladders, it's a very good light to use.\par
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