Group: alt.energy.homepower
From: "Jan Rasmussen" <1@1.1>
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: 6 watt cfl power draw

"Jan Rasmussen" <1@ > skrev i en meddelelse news:46d5e8a4$0$15884$edfadb0f@ ...
> "Pete C." < @ > skrev i en meddelelse news: @ ...
>
>> The voltage may be DC, but the current waveform doesn't have to be
>> constant.
>
> I just took a mesurement with a 50watt resistor in series on my 12v DC 11Watt cfl,
> i got the expected dc over the resistor but nothing on AC(0,001) volt.
>

Now my digital multimeter AC voltage frequency range is 40-400hz so it could be
misleading, if there is some internal switching at 20khz.

But my 12volt 11wat cfl uses 820mA DC and my 12volt 5watt cfl uses 510mA DC,
as expected.

Jan Rasmussen