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Originally Posted by RAJAH235
Why not try one of these CCFL tubes?
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I grabbed one of the red ones RAJAH and found that placing a large 28ohm resistor in series before the circuit dropped it's power consumption to a respectable 100mA. the light output also dropped quite nicely (it was a little too bright at full power) At these low currents though the tube has a little trouble starting sometimes, so I put a little single-pole push switch in to bypass the resistor and allow the full current to be applied to the circuit when this happens. I have no idea if the reduced power will effect the circuit or tube negatively but I will give it a 10 hour test once it's mounted in some form of lamp arrangement.
Thanks for the idea!