I checked out candles for Y2K, even made some with 4 wicks. Found they really don't give out much light.
It is interesting that candle power is the base measurement for lighting.
I have a couple surefire flashlights. One is rated at 60 candle powder. The other at 120 candle powder. I find 120 candle power decent for a small room. Yes, I can live with less, but ....
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clueless about HAM
The later Western Electric Trimline phones had LED's in the handset that were line powered. (Earlier ones used an incandescent lamp powered by a small wall transformer.) Just find one of those and you will have a line powered light and a working phone all in one.
I had an interesting incident with our phone wires about two years ago. Our phone would work for outgoing calls but anytime someone called here the line would go busy right at the start of the ring. We never heard the ring. I assumed it was wet cables outside. After some troubleshooting the telephone man found it was inside the house. Evidently the mice had chewed a cable inside. It was not a dead short but acted like a zener diode. The ringing voltage would break the barrier and cease the circuit. When the CO broke the battery it would clear. Those darned mice had also chewed up the electric cables in the attic and walls. They were aluminum so they all got replaced with conduit and metal clad cable.
it's interesting to find how
dark dark dark it is
without electric lights
candles were for most people too expensive
simple oil lamps were dirty and smelly
did not give off much light
only a few generations ago
when the sun went down its was dark
and stayed dark till the sun came up
using a open flame for lighting scares the hell out of me
mind if you simply
must
burn something for lighting
get a good oil lamp
get a Aladdin
not cheap but work better than any other oil lamp
ive ever used
oh
ive heard that Sorensen lamps are great
but they are even more expensive than a Aladdin
I had an interesting incident with our phone wires about two years ago. Our phone would work for outgoing calls but anytime someone called here the line would go busy right at the start of the ring. We never heard the ring. I assumed it was wet cables outside. After some troubleshooting the telephone man found it was inside the house. Evidently the mice had chewed a cable inside. It was not a dead short but acted like a zener diode. The ringing voltage would break the barrier and cease the circuit. When the CO broke the battery it would clear. Those darned mice had also chewed up the electric cables in the attic and walls. They were aluminum so they all got replaced with conduit and metal clad cable.
I had a similar situation where a kritter chewed an outside line. Somehow there was enuff voltage to carbonize a path (and hopefully the kritter). Only when it rained (the cable did not directly get wet that I know of) the line would conduct enuff to give an off-hook indication and drop the line to about 3 volts. My phones usually drop to about 6 volts.
After a dry day the problem would clear up. Really baffling. Finally found it.
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