[PLUG-TALK] Electrical hacking: Touch-lamps

Grish grishnav at egosurf.net
Sat May 22 21:29:54 UTC 2004


http://home.howstuffworks.com/question42.htm
http://home.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=question42.htm&url=http://www.paia.com/touchsw.htm


Jeme A Brelin wrote:

>OK, you know those lamps that turn on when you touch their metal parts?
>
>I want something like that... but not exactly like that.
>
>I went to the store to see what I could find.  I found a couple of
>interesting products:
>
>Touch lamps.
>Touch lamp bulb socket adapters.
>Touch lamp outlet adapters.
>
>The lamps do what the lamps do.
>
>The bulb socket adapter has a socket that screws into an existing lamp
>bulb socket and a conducting tab that screws against the metal casing of
>the bulb socket to make contact for the touch-sensitivity.
>
>So far, so good.
>
>The outlet adapter, however, goes between the power cord and the wall and
>has NO conductor to attach to a metal part of the lamp.  But it still
>freakin' works.  How the hell's that?!?
>
>Mods:
>
>I don't like what it does, exactly.  First, it is designed to dim power to
>three levels.  Is there a reason they ALL do this?  Can I modify the thing
>so that it just turns on and off with touch?
>
>And what if I have a lamp with no metal parts, but would like to have a
>metal strip on the wall that is touched?  Is that possible?
>
>Let me know if you've got any ideas.
>
>Thanks.
>J.
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