The Gotham City Dart League announces the 7th Annual Varuna Cup Dart Competition, to be held on April 11-13, 2008 at the Varuna Boat Club in Brooklyn, New York. The flyer (click here) has full information, and reports that over $5,000.00 was paid out last year. This looks like a nice event for those looking for a little competition to get ready for the PDC events coming in May.
Now for the story. I have been relegated to practicing in my upstairs office since the in-laws moved in and took over the play room, where I had my previous set-up. So, I moved my board upstairs and set up some lighting. One table lamp is located behind the oche. Every so often, I would need to replace the regular light bulbs as the filaments would burn out. After I saw several advertisements for those fancy, environmentally friendly mini-halogen light bulbs I decided to try them out. They use less energy and are supposed to save you money over the long run over the cheap filament light bulbs. Stay with me.
There I was practicing a week after installing the fancy new $6 light bulb and my first dart lands in the trip 20. So far so good. The second dart hits the top wire on T20, and it's one of those weird, thankfully rare, high velocity bounce outs coming straight back at me. Before I can congratulate myself on an artful dodge there is a great crash as the dart shatters my poor new $6 light bulb in the table lamp. Looks like I didn't save any money on that one, and somehow I don't think the warranty will cover it!
Monday, March 03, 2008
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Those halogen bulbs are good, but I've noticed there are two varieties ; The first has two small pins for electrical contacts, and they seem to rely on the power being stepped down by the rest of the lamp. They blow far more often as the result of power spikes. The other type have much larger pins which look like two mini plugs. They seem to step the power down to the required voltage themselves, and last far longer. Both types smash when they're hit though!
Hehehe...
You can't make up stuff like that!
Margaret
There was a funny smell too. I would have to count that as the oddest thing I have hit with a dart.
Kevin
time to invest in the circumluminator!! At least now you have good excuse to drop the moola on one. They run like 200 bucks.
Kev,
Rumor has it those mini-halogens also contain mercury. Now those of us in our age group played with Mercury in HS labs and the like with little to no ill effects (I don't think). However, today's frantic about anything culture thinks its a bad thing. You may want to investigate for yourself.
I heard a supposed true story of someone calling the poison control hotline like the package stated, and it ended up costing like $2000 to have the house de-mercurized. Not very economical or practical when you look at it that way?
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