Posted by Sean O'Hara on 10/24/05 18:13

In the Year of the Cock, the Great and Powerful NunYa Bidness declared:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:00:29 -0400, John Harkness
> <jharkness@sympatico.ca> Gave us:
>

>>Actually, it's not done to save power.
>>
>>It's done to prolong the life of the bulb. Those boys is expensive.
>>
>>Oh, and it's cheaper to air condition an empty theatre than it is to
>>air condition a full one.
>>
> Reducing the voltage to the bulb does not increase its life.
>

Yes. And?

It doesn't matter if reducing power to the lamp actually increases
bulb life, so long as managers believe it does. Or were you
expecting theater managers to understand how projection equipment
works, or have a trained projectionist on hand who does?

--
Sean O'Hara | http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com
If only god would give me a sign... like making a large deposit in
my name to a Swiss bank account.
-Woody Allen

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