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Post# 523036   6/6/2011 at 23:43 (4,699 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Drying methods came up in Deluxe and it reminded me of a dryer I think I remember from no later than the 60s. It had a blue light inside that ran when the dryer did, presumably some ultraviolet to mimic the ozone smell of line dried. No guess to brand but gravely doubt it was Westinghouse, we had those. You know, the ones where lint glommed between inner and outer tub and you had to pull it out with a bent clotheshanger, that was my job.
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Post# 523180 , Reply# 1   6/7/2011 at 19:45 (4,698 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 523239 , Reply# 2   6/7/2011 at 23:35 (4,698 days old) by golittlesport (California)   |   | |
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Post# 523242 , Reply# 3   6/7/2011 at 23:56 (4,698 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Post# 523373 , Reply# 5   6/8/2011 at 14:54 (4,697 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Post# 523468 , Reply# 7   6/9/2011 at 00:02 (4,697 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Ozone has become one of those "regulator's excuse to take your money" issues. Ozone is good but freon destroys it so you have to pay 4x for freon. Ozone is bad so you have to buy ethanol which increases NOx the major component of smog but ethanol has a bunch of lobbyists.
If your dryer makes ozone does that make you a criminal or a savior? Is it possible for an incandescent bulb to make ozone? Not that I know of. I throttled the gas down in my last dryer because it singed the detergent fragrance and smelled awful. Ozone is used as auxiliary disinfectant in spas. It's the primary disinfectant in bottled water, a huge volume product, and the ozone is manufactured not captured. I'd like a UV fluorescent in my dryer and in my central return duct. But I'd probably get arrested. |
Post# 523469 , Reply# 8   6/9/2011 at 00:06 (4,697 days old) by gmmcnair (Portland, OR)   |   | |
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My grandmother's Philco Bendix had one of those lights....that might be another brand. Memories are vague because I was all of three but I remember what she called her "lilac light." I liked it because it had the window in the door and you could watch. The Frigidaire 1-18 dryer she replaced it with in 1972 was a huge disappointment to me. (How did I remember that?)
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Post# 523560 , Reply# 10   6/9/2011 at 14:01 (4,696 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Gotta wonder, if ozone is bad for you (it is) why does it smell so good? Most stuff that's noxious rather announces itself (not counting CO).
I have a problem with a fleet of fluorescents the size of the incandescent fleet, liberating mercury. Also, I use dimmers extensively and CFLs won't tolerate that. No problem with LED lighting, bring it on. That's all well out of our hands though. The blue bulb in the dryer, was fluor or incan? I think you can get a little UV out of an argon discharge lamp and there is (was) such thing but can't figure how incan could do that. |
Post# 523638 , Reply# 11   6/9/2011 at 20:02 (4,696 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)   |   | |
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I remember my Mom had a 1948 Kenmore dryer that had a blue light at the back of the drum. I always thought that was weird. I don't know if it was a UV light. That dryer lasted 20 years before it was replaced! |
Post# 523732 , Reply# 14   6/10/2011 at 10:18 (4,695 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Thanks for the look inside the sunlamp bulb. I had both the bulb and the tube types. |
Post# 523767 , Reply# 15   6/10/2011 at 13:26 (4,695 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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What I don't know about arc lamps could fill a book about arc lamps, despite working on arclamp fixtures for 2+ years commercially. Curious critters, those. Well more than one way to do it. All had iron ballasts, electronic ballast was optional on one. It raised the flicker rate so the fixture could be used with television and film without strobing. It could also be used from 100V to 250V without operator intervention, plug-n-play.
Back to the dryer, do seem to remember the blue light coming from behind holes rather than behind lens. Likely a Kenmore pair, those were fairly ubiquitous. I only remember seeing one Filter Flo and one Frigidaire each as a child and as an adult. Oh, and that Bendix Economat! |
Post# 523780 , Reply# 16   6/10/2011 at 15:06 (4,695 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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The blue light would not be behind a lens because it was the gas it produced that was desired and needed to be introduced to the atmosphere, not so much the blue light. It's not Kmart inside the dryer. |
Post# 524384 , Reply# 20   6/14/2011 at 03:27 (4,691 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)   |   | |
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Oh yes-digital ballasts are very lightweight,and have heat sinks or even a tiny fan in them.They usually run very cool for the bulb wattage.And they do not hum or buzz.You may hear a whining noise as the bulb heats up. |
Post# 524653 , Reply# 23   6/15/2011 at 13:07 (4,690 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Post# 524833 , Reply# 25   6/16/2011 at 11:18 (4,689 days old) by jeff_adelphi (Adelphi, Maryland, USA)   |   | |
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Post# 524877 , Reply# 26   6/16/2011 at 13:39 (4,689 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Saw a docu on tobacco once. Two actually. One on growing, and (shudder) one on what they do to it in the factory. I only started cigarettes in the first place to have something legal to smoke in public. Now I'm stuck with them, they've septupled in price, and they're only legal out in the alley with the winos.
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