When.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: swap dimmer switch for normal tv

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Digital television transition - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_television_transition

    The switch-off was noticed by few, since the overwhelming majority receive TV via cable and only around 74,000 households relied on terrestrial over-the-air broadcasts. [2] The switch-off was helped greatly as cable continued to use analog distribution, and thus consumers' old tuners continued to be useful.

  3. 1994–1996 United States broadcast television realignment

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994–1996_United_States...

    The logo of Fox Broadcasting Company from 1987 to 1993. Between 1994 and 1996, a wide-ranging realignment of television network affiliations took place in the United States as the result of a multimillion-dollar deal between the Fox Broadcasting Company and New World Communications, announced on May 23, 1994.

  4. Repercussions of the 1994–1996 United States broadcast TV ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repercussions_of_the_1994...

    Between 1994 and 1996, a wide-ranging series of network affiliation switches took place in media markets across the United States as the result of a multimillion-dollar deal between Fox and New World Communications which was announced on May 23, 1994. The Fox–New World agreement, which saw twelve stations owned by New World change ...

  5. Television interference - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_interference

    A typical SCR based light dimmer which dims the light through phase angle control. This unit is wired in series with the load. Diodes (D 2, D 3, D 4 and D 5) for a bridge which generates DC with much ripple. R and C form a circuit with a time constant, as the voltage increases from zero (at the start of every halfwave) C will charge up, when C ...

  6. Dimmer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimmer

    When the dimmer is at 50% power, the switches are switching their highest voltage (>325 V in Europe) and the sudden surge of power causes the coils on the inductor to move, creating a buzzing sound associated with some types of dimmer; this same effect can be heard in the filaments of the incandescent lamps as "singing". The suppression ...

  7. Joel Spira (businessman) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spira_(businessman)

    Joel Solon Spira (March 1, 1927 – April 8, 2015) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and business magnate.. He invented a version of the light-dimmer switch for use in homes around the United States and led his Lutron Electronics Company into the production of lighting controllers.

  8. Light switch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_switch

    Two light switches in one box. The switch on the right is a dimmer switch. The switch box is covered by a decorative plate. The first light switch employing "quick-break technology" was invented by John Henry Holmes in 1884 in the Shieldfield district of Newcastle upon Tyne. [1]

  9. DIP switch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIP_switch

    Eight switches offer 256 (2 8) combinations, which is equivalent to one byte. A tri-state type DIP switch can be in one of three positions (+, 0, −) which allows more codes than a binary DIP switch. For example, 8 pole tri-state DIP switches offer 6,561 (3 8) combinations/codes compared to 8 pole binary switches' 256 (2 8) combinations/codes ...