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  2. Mercury-vapor lamp - Wikipedia

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    A 175-watt mercury-vapor light approximately 15 seconds after starting.A closeup of a 175-W mercury-vapor lamp.The small diagonal cylinder at the bottom of the arc tube is a resistor which supplies current to the starter electrode.

  3. Bug zapper - Wikipedia

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    The design was implemented by two unnamed Denver men and was conceded to be too expensive to be of practical use. The device was 10 by 15 inches (25 by 38 cm), contained 5 incandescent light bulbs, and the grid was 1 ⁄ 16-inch (1.59 mm) wires spaced 1 ⁄ 8-inch (3.17 mm) apart with a voltage of 450 volts. Users were supposed to bait the ...

  4. Petters Limited - Wikipedia

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    The following year he designed and built a small 2.5 hp oil engine for agricultural use that was immediately successful and the enterprise expanded, with Jacobs becoming chief engineer - a position he held until his death in 1936 - such that by 1904 over a thousand Petter oil engines were sold, ranging in capacity from 1 hp to 30 hp.

  5. Orders of magnitude (power) - Wikipedia

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    tech: the power consumption of a typical Light-emitting diode (LED) light bulb 8 tech: human-powered equipment using a hand crank. [14] 10 1: deca-(daW) 1.4 × 10 1: tech: the power consumption of a typical household compact fluorescent light bulb: 2–4 × 10 1: biomed: approximate power consumption of the human brain [15] 3–4 × 10 1

  6. Kerosene lamp - Wikipedia

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    As of 2005, kerosene and other fuel-based illumination methods consume an estimated 77 billion litres (20 billion US gallons) of fuel per year, equivalent to 8.0 million gigajoules (1.3 million barrels of oil equivalent) per day. [1] [2] This is comparable to annual U.S. jet-fuel consumption of 76 billion litres (20 billion US gallons) per year.

  7. Candlepower - Wikipedia

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    Narrow-beamed lights of all sorts can have very high candlepower specifications, because candlepower measures the intensity of the light on a target, rather than the total amount of light it emits. A given lamp has a higher candlepower rating if its light is more tightly focused. [2] Candlepower is still used today in law.

  8. List of automotive light bulb types - Wikipedia

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    12 V: 35 / 30 W P23t For motorcycles HS5A 2 12 V: 45 / 40 W PX23t For motorcycles ... Replaceable Light Sources for Vehicle Headlamps; Bulb Type Trade Number Cap (Base)

  9. Electrical outlet tester - Wikipedia

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    A receptacle tester being used to check for some types of improper wiring of an outlet. For this particular tester, proper wiring is indicated by the two yellow lights. The outlet tester checks that each contact in the outlet appears to be connected to the correct wire in the building's electrical wiring. It can identify several common wiring ...