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RE: Morgan Jones on thoriated tungsten filaments

In the original article, the actual measurement was a 75 hour reduction of life for each turn-on cycle. To get 500 hours, they used a conservative 60 hours lost per cycle. 60 hours times 500 cycles is 30,000 hours. (I used a caculator :^)


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