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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 04:10:48 +0100, Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> wrote:

> On 04/11/2017 03:14 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Yellow doesn't look green or red to me, even though my eyes will be
>> detecting the green and red seperately.
>
> It doesn't to me either. Still, that's the way it's formed.
>
>>> As to yellow, I used to have some holiday lights that were red and green
>>> (two filaments in the same bulb). Get far enough away and you do see
>>> yellow.
>>
>> No such thing as a coloured filament.  The colour is on the glass of the
>> bulb.
>
> The glass over one filament is colored red and the glass over the other
> filament is colored green.

So like I said, you don't have coloured filaments.  How on earth do they arrange it so light from one filament doesn't get through the paint intended for the other one?

> BTW, that coating does come off after prolonged use, causing the colors
> to fade. That's one advantage of LEDs - the light IS that color.

For some reason older coloured LEDs were actually that colour of plastic.  Why?

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 19:10 +0100
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-15 17:31 -0500

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