Page:Incandescent electric lighting- A practical description of the Edison system.djvu/144

This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

133

the case shown in Fig. 11, but the lamps are only half as good. The minimum total cost is increased from $294 to $327, and the maximum efficiency is reduced from 2.38 to 2.62 watts per candle.

Lamps 25 cts. each—Life 2400 hrs. at 3 Watts per Candle.

Current costs 10 cts. per ㏋. per hour.

Fig. 12.

The first and plainest inference drawn from these curves is that the maximum efficiency o£ any given lamp is not a fixed one, but varies with conditions outside