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To: NorthMountain

You are obviously in the trade or the engineering side.

I was in the wholesale hardware distribution business for 35 years. Sold a lot of lighting. But it was before the new options existed. I did sell sodium and mercury vapor replacement stuff. And quartz halogen lamps.

I have a commercial radio license and an Amateur Extra. But never worked in that field. I understand the theory pretty well, but optical radiation was not something I studied. Thanks for the clarification.


47 posted on 11/07/2016 9:28:05 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Texas Fossil

I’m supposedly some sort of engineer ... I don’t work in the lighting trade, though. For whatever reasons I have to know a few things about various light sources from the POV of spectroscopy. Most of my interest is actually in the infrared (SWIR 1000-2500nm). Professionally, I hate LED and fluorescent lights, as they produce nothing in that region. Quartz-halogen actually produces better SWIR illumination than visible.


49 posted on 11/07/2016 9:47:14 AM PST by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: Such a nasty woman ...)
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