{"id":7013,"date":"2015-08-06T12:09:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7013"},"modified":"2015-08-06T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T16:09:57","slug":"fluorescent-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7013","title":{"rendered":"Fluorescent nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are nearly all\u00a0the parts from a recently failed fluorescent bulb, which I disassembled:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7014\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150806_114504.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150806_114504.jpg 653w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150806_114504-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of these parts are perfectly good, mostly generic electronic components that often end up in the trash. All because of these:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7015\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150806_114525.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150806_114525.jpg 497w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/20150806_114525-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, a rotting electrolytic capacitor. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capacitor_plague\">Great Capacitor Plague<\/a>\u00a0is supposedly a thing of the past, but bad capacitors still show up quite often. One cannot help but wonder about the possibility that this is not altogether accidental&#8230; after all, more frequent replacement of these supposedly long-lasting bulbs means more profit to manufacturers.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7013' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are nearly all\u00a0the parts from a recently failed fluorescent bulb, which I disassembled: Most of these parts are perfectly good, mostly generic electronic components that often end up in the trash. All because of these: Yes, a rotting electrolytic capacitor. The Great Capacitor Plague\u00a0is supposedly a thing of the past, but bad capacitors still <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=7013' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-electronics","category-46-id","category-61-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7016,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7013\/revisions\/7016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}