- Industry: Energy
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American conglomerate currently ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company. GE has multifarious business interests including power generation and financial services.
Effective reduction in contrast between task and its background caused by the reflection of light rays; sometimes called "reflected glare." You might have dealt with veiling reflections when you have to tilt a shiny magazine to avoid glare so as to read it, or struggled with reading a computer monitor because of the reflection of a window or a light fixture (See GLARE).
Industry:Lights & lighting
For a given lighting scheme, VCP is a ratio expressed as a percent of people who, when viewing from a specific location and in a specified direction, find the system acceptable in terms of glare (See GLARE).
Industry:Lights & lighting
The task associated with seeing; objects and details that must be seen to perform an activity.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A measure of "electrical pressure" between two points. The higher the voltage, the more current will be pushed through a resistor connected across the points. The volt specification of an incandescent lamp is the electrical "pressure" required to drive it at its designed point. The "voltage" of a ballast (e.g. 277 V) refers to the line voltage it must be connected to.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A measurement of the electromotive force in an electrical circuit or device expressed in volts. Voltage can be thought of as being analogous to the pressure in a waterline.
Industry:Lights & lighting
For Automotive lamps, voltage at which the lamp is designed to provide the amperes, candlepower, and laboratory life characteristics. For Projection lamps, the voltage shown is the design voltage of the lamp, on which the life and wattage ratings are based. Lamps for which 115-120 is shown in the Volts column are designed at 118 volts. Lamps are available only in the design voltage(s) shown. When ordering lamps listed for more than one voltage, be sure to specify the voltage required. (Supply voltage variation can significantly affect lamp life.)
Industry:Lights & lighting
Refers to a colour temperature around 3000K, providing a yellowish-white light.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Indicates that this is a reduced wattage option for lamps normally used in this application. Be sure to cheque wattage, lumens and life to determine which lamp is best suited to your needs.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A unit of electrical power. Lamps are rated in watts to indicate the rate at which they consume energy. (See KILOWATT HOUR).
Industry:Lights & lighting
The distance between two neighbouring crests of a travelling wave. The wavelength of light is between 400 and 700 nanometers.
Industry:Lights & lighting
