An 8-bit microcontroller can implement the essential functions of an electronic ballast for HID or fluorescent lamps, while enabling many desirable features. Today's design engineers are faced with ...

Electronic ballasts used in fluorescent lighting systems can experience high failure rates, due to the fact that the ballast manufacturer may not have considered all failure mechanisms or provided ...

Arc-current and phase-control methods offer greater simplicity and accuracy than digital methods when dimming fluorescent lamps. Peter B. Green, Senior Lighting Systems Engineer, International ...

The high-intensity discharge (HID) lamp offers a host of benefits for a broad range of lighting applications, even as the LED revolution in lighting continues apace. Although subsequent legislation ...

Well-suited for applications such as track and accent lighting, the RMH-20-ELF e-Vision metal halide ballast is designed specifically to drive the 20-W Mini MasterColor lamp. The thermally-protected ...

After years of research and development, radio frequency light sources are just now becoming a mainstream lighting option. Lighting isn't exactly the first thing you think of when you hear “radio ...

Brass medium screw base with glass insulator, tungsten filament, T-shaped envelope. Stamped: "26437". Donor’s card reads: “Ballast lamp made by the Western Electric Company about 1930 for use in ...