what s exactly in a flour allmartin mccormickwhat s exactly in a flour mm from martin datacomm ucc okstate edu martin mccormick mm organization oklahoma state university stillwater ok mm what sort of lamp is the little glass bulb found inside the starter mm it sort of reminds me of a ne neon lamp starters appear open when m mm with an ohm meter so the little lamp is either a neon or has a capacit mm in series with it mm mm i have seen these things all my life but never read a really good mm description of what is happening inside that little can do you know what a bi metallic strip is just in case it is two strips of different metals bonded together which when heated bend to one side check out the blinker globe in your christmas tree lights so when you turn on the power this causes the bulb to work like a neon heating up and shorting out thus providing a loop to power the heaters in the main tube when the tube fires insufficient current runs through the starter to keep the heat up and the bi metalic strip straightens out o c btw i too thought that they were nothing more than a small neon so one day when the neon in my sisters digital flip the metal squares type clock broke flimsy leads i replaced it with one from a starter well powering up made a bit of a mess of the clock cheers peter t
