The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread

OLS · 05-10-2011, 01:54 PM

Haha, you know me, got to SOUND superior if I can't BE superior. I always used the term lamp, cause in TV
we are always replacing tungsten lamps in our fixtures when someone trips over a wire and drags a light stand
to the floor with a crash and a pop and a flash of light. I ought to know I have blown up more than my share.
When you pay 3 for a dollar it's a bulb. When you pay 45 dollars for one, it's a LAMP, lol. But hearing that,
I would imagine that it could well be true that the last time I was actively buying lamps it was in the HO SHO days,
and I got my knowledge from that time of the hobby. Now I need to update my BS to match the reality, although
it would stand to reason that there was spectral shift if all of a sudden out of nowhere you are growing hair algae
like a hermit. Of course, there are 10 other reasons that could all be in play, lol. I DO save all my old lamps,
cause in my heart I do not believe a lamp is dead til you drop it or it gets a flicker and a black end on it.

05-10-2011, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by OLS

When you pay 3 for a dollar it's a bulb. When you pay 45 dollars for one, it's a LAMP, lol.

'Zackly!
In electronics it's always a lamp, a bulb is an envelope.

05-10-2011, 01:54 PM	#1
OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	Re: The Official Asylum Reef Tank Thread Haha, you know me, got to SOUND superior if I can't BE superior. I always used the term lamp, cause in TV we are always replacing tungsten lamps in our fixtures when someone trips over a wire and drags a light stand to the floor with a crash and a pop and a flash of light. I ought to know I have blown up more than my share. When you pay 3 for a dollar it's a bulb. When you pay 45 dollars for one, it's a LAMP, lol. But hearing that, I would imagine that it could well be true that the last time I was actively buying lamps it was in the HO SHO days, and I got my knowledge from that time of the hobby. Now I need to update my BS to match the reality, although it would stand to reason that there was spectral shift if all of a sudden out of nowhere you are growing hair algae like a hermit. Of course, there are 10 other reasons that could all be in play, lol. I DO save all my old lamps, cause in my heart I do not believe a lamp is dead til you drop it or it gets a flicker and a black end on it.