- 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.
Refers to ballasts that employ multiple output current paths from a single ballast to allow lamps to operate independent of one another, allowing other lamps operated by the ballast to remain lit should companion lamp(s) fail.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Chemical pollutant formerly used in ballast capacitors that were part of ballasts. It is now illegal to use PCB's and most such ballasts have been replaced over time.
Industry:Lights & lighting
An inorganic chemical compound processed into a powder and deposited on the inner glass surface of fluorescent tubes and some mercury and metal-halide lamp bulbs. Phosphors are designed to absorb short wavelength ultraviolet radiation and to transform and emit it as visible light (See FLOURESCENCE).
Industry:Lights & lighting
Vision for which the cones in the eye are responsible; typically at high brightness and in the foveal or central region (See SCOTOPIC, FOVEA, FOVEAL VISON).
Industry:Lights & lighting
Material used to completely surround and cover components of some magnetic and electronic ballasts. Potting compound fulfils functions of protecting components, dampening sound, and dissipating heat.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Measurement of the relationship between the AC source voltage and current. High power factor ballasts require less AC operating current at the same wattage than an equivalent low power factor ballast. Formula: Power Factor equals Input Watts divided by the product of Line Volts times Line Amps (Volt Amps or VA).
Industry:Lights & lighting
Ballasts that incorporate a means of Power Factor Correction but whose power factor is 90% or greater.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A type of fluorescent lamp-ballast circuit used with the first commercial fluorescent lamp products. A push button or automatic switch is used to preheat the lamp cathodes to a glow state. Starting the lamp can then be accomplished using simple "choke" or reactor ballasts.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A fluorescent lamp in which the filament must be heated by use of a starter before the arc is created. These lamps are typically operated with electromagnetic ballasts.
Industry:Lights & lighting
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Industry:Lights & lighting
