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  2. Wedge base - Wikipedia

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    The wires are usually inserted into a plastic base that the bulb is mounted in, and which is often narrower at the tip than at the bulb, giving it a wedge shape and usually ensuring a tight connection, depending on manufacturing tolerances. Some bulbs have no plastic base, and the wires are simply bent up to the sides of the bulb's glass base.

  3. Bi-pin lamp base - Wikipedia

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    The suffix after the G indicates the pin spread; the G dates to the use of Glass for the original bulbs. GU usually also indicates that the lamp provides a mechanism for physical support by the luminaire: in some cases, each pin has a short section of larger diameter at the end (sometimes described as a "peg" rather than a "pin" [2]); the socket allows the bulb to lock into place by twisting ...

  4. List of automotive light bulb types - Wikipedia

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    Similar US bulb: HB2 (9003) 12V: ECE nominal luminous flux: 1,650 / 1,000 lm ±15% Available with P45t base to upgrade old headlamps designed for R2 bulb H7 1 12 V: 55 W 24 V: 70 W PX26d USA, Japan 12V: ECE nominal luminous flux: 1,500 lm ±10% H8 1 12 V: 35 W PGJ19-1 USA ECE nominal luminous flux: 800 lm ±15% H8B 1 12 V: 35 W PGJY19-1 USA H9 1

  5. Edison screw - Wikipedia

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    Some adapters for wall outlets use an Edison screw, allowing a light socket to become an ungrounded electrical outlet (such as to install Christmas lights temporarily via a porch light), or to make a pull-chain switch with two outlets, or to split it for two lamps. Another adapter can make a wall outlet into a lamp holder (lamp socket).

  6. Fluorescent-lamp formats - Wikipedia

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    Fluorescent lamps in various embodiments. Since their introduction as a commercial product in 1939, many different types of fluorescent lamp have been introduced. Systematic nomenclature identifies mass-market lamps as to overall shape, power rating, length, color, and other electrical and illuminating characteristics.

  7. International S series - Wikipedia

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    The International S series is a range of trucks that was manufactured by International Harvester (later Navistar International) from 1977 to 2001.Introduced to consolidate the medium-duty IHC Loadstar and heavy-duty IHC Fleetstar into a single product range, the S series was slotted below the Transtar and Paystar Class 8 conventionals.

  8. Soldering iron - Wikipedia

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    The now-expired patent, which even Weller has stopped using on some models, described an outer tube holding the coated copper tip, clamped with a nut to the handle. [ 14 ] Located at the remote rear end of draw tube 26, and held thereto by peripheral flange 27, is a freely rotatable threaded nut 28 adapted to be threaded about nut receiving ...

  9. Tanning lamp - Wikipedia

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    This allows a 100 watt lamp to fully light with as little as 65 watts. S12 lamp starter. The disadvantage of the newer electronics is price. It can cost 3 to 5 times more per lamp to use electronic ballasts than traditional choke ballasts, which is why choke ballasts are still used in the majority of new tanning systems.