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  2. Diving weighting system - Wikipedia

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    Buoyancy control is considered both an essential skill and one of the most difficult for the novice to master. Lack of proper buoyancy control increases the risk of disturbing or damaging the surroundings, and is a source of additional and unnecessary physical effort to maintain precise depth, which also increases stress.

  3. Electrical ballast - Wikipedia

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    It can be incorporated into an existing fluorescent light fixture or mounted remotely outside of it. When power is lost, the ballast will illuminate one or more lamps in the fixture at a reduced output for a minimum of 90 minutes (as required by code). These can be used as an alternative to egress lighting powered by a back-up electrical generator.

  4. Fluorescent lamp - Wikipedia

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    These ballasts convert the incoming power to an output frequency in excess of 20 kHz. This increases lamp efficiency. [45] These ballasts operate with voltages that can be almost 600 volts, requiring some consideration in housing design, and can cause a minor limitation in the length of the wire leads from the ballast to the lamp ends.

  5. Ship ballast - Wikipedia

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    Pumps can also be used to empty the leeward ballast tank and fill the windward tank as the boat tacks, and the quantity of ballast can be varied to keep the boat at the optimum angle of heel. A disadvantage of water ballast is that water is not very dense and therefore the tanks required take up more space than other forms of ballast.

  6. Ballast cleaner - Wikipedia

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    Combined with water in the ballast, these fines stick together, making the ballast like a lump of concrete. This hinders both track drainage and the flexibility of the ballast to constrain the track as it moves under traffic. [2] Ballast cleaning removes this worn ballast, screens it and replaces the "dirty" worn ballast with fresh ballast.

  7. List of most-subscribed YouTube channels - Wikipedia

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    American YouTube personality MrBeast is the most-subscribed channel on YouTube, with 369 million subscribers as of March 2025.. A subscriber to a channel on the American video-sharing platform YouTube is a user who has chosen to receive the channel's content by clicking on that channel's "Subscribe" button, and each user's subscription feed consists of videos published by channels to which the ...

  8. Compact fluorescent lamp - Wikipedia

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    The adapter consists of a regular bulb screw, the ballast itself and a clip for the lamp's connector. Non-integrated bi-pin double-turn CFL with G24d plug-in base An electronic ballast and permanently attached tube in an integrated CFL. CFLs have two main components: a magnetic or electronic ballast and a gas-filled tube (also called bulb or ...

  9. Tamping machine - Wikipedia

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    Jackson 6700 switch tamping machine A Plasser & Theurer 09-16 CSM Tamper / Liner A MATISA tamper at Keighley in February 2017 Customer VolkerRail. A tamping machine or ballast tamper, informally simply a tamper, is a self-propelled, rail-mounted machine used to pack (or tamp) the track ballast under railway tracks to make the tracks and roadbed more durable and level.