- 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.
(LFL plug-in ballasts) A configuration with leads or a wire-trap on the bottom or base of the ballast. This type of configuration is usually used when the ballast is mounted onto a junction box plate.
Industry:Lights & lighting
(LFL plug-in ballasts) A configuration with screw studs mounted on the base plate or bottom of the ballast. The screws are 3/8" inches long with a #8-32 thread size (#8-32 nut). They are mounted on a two inch center. The studs are usually used to mount the ballast directly onto a junction box plate.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Brightness can refer to any of several technical terms used in lighting and is, therefore, ambiguous (See LUMINANCE).
Industry:Lights & lighting
A loose way of referring to a lamp. "Bulb" refers to the outer glass bulb containing the light source.
Industry:Lights & lighting
The type of glass (or quartz) used in the glass envelope surrounding the light source. The material can also have coatings applied to achieve particular performances.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Bulb shape followed by its size (the maximum diameter of the bulb expressed in eighths of an inch). For Compact Fluorescent products, "S", "D", "T", and "Q" are used to represent Single, Double, Triple and Quad Biax® sizes. The code also includes a reference such as T4 to represent the size of the tube. Rectangular headlamps are designated as "Rect" and the number of millimetres horizontally.
Industry:Lights & lighting
The measure of luminous intensity of a source in a given direction. The term has been retained from the early days of lighting when a standard candle of a fixed size and composition was defined as producing one candela in every direction. A plot of intensity versus direction is called a candela distribution curve and is often provided for reflectorized lamps and for luminaires with a lamp operating in them.
Industry:Lights & lighting
An obsolete term for luminous intensity; current practise is to refer to this simply as candelas.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Initial mean spherical candlepower at the design voltage. Mean spherical candlepower is the generally accepted method of rating the total light output of miniature lamps. To convert this rating to lumens, multiply it by 12.57 (4 pi).
Industry:Lights & lighting
A graphical presentation of the distribution of light intensity of a light source, usually a reflector lamp or luminaire.
Industry:Lights & lighting
