Re: [photo-3d] Re: Halogen viewer bulbs

[Linda Nygren <lnygren@xxxxxxx>]

John Goodman wrote:
> It might be interesting if sellers of the various viewer lightbulbs
> told us the approximate sales ratios among the ones they offer.

Does this tell you which bulb is most often used, or which needs to be
replaced the most often due to burning out???

> Similarly, it would be nice to hear from people who use battery
> viewers a lot, if blown bulbs are a fairly common occurrence
> (once a month, say) or quite rare (once a year), and which
> bulbs were in use.

I rarely need to replace my viewer bulbs, which are the frosted halogens
from DrT. I think I might have gone a couple of years not having to
replace any at all, despite having several regularly used viewers with
these bulbs. Lately I have had a few burn out, but certainly less than
one per year per viewer, even in the more heavily used viewers.

I do however keep a spare bulb wrapped in tissue paper tucked inside the
case of each of my Red Buttons, especially if I am going to be
travelling. ("Just in case", pun intended.) I often use old style bulbs
as backups, which is not a bad use for some of the working bulbs that I
have replaced with halogens. Perhaps having the spares has kept me from
having a bulb burn out at a  critical time, as was discussed previously.
[The Umbrella Corollary to Murphy's Law states that if you have it you
won't need it.] -Linda

 

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