Aided by a new full-bridge controller, a popular electronic HID ballast topology manages lamp operation, while enhancing lamp safety. Tom Ribarich, Director, Lighting IC Design Center, International ...

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 ...

Fluorescent light fixtures are more efficient and cheaper to run than incandescents. But some fluorescent fixtures buzz or hum, and they take a long time to start when temperatures fall much below ...

Lighting ballasts are as essential to a fluorescent lamp as an engine is to a car. In essence, they provide the power behind the light, serving as both an inhibitor to limit the flow of current and as ...

MUNICH, Germany — Infineon Technologies AG has launched a fluorescent lamp ballast controller that features intelligent digital/mixed signal power control. The ICB2FL01G lamp ballast controller ...

The highly efficient Lighting Ballast Transformer Series from Innovative Power, Inc., offer superior performance, excellent reliability and rugged construction for aerospace, industrial and commercial ...

Q: My home is about 20 years old. My problem is with the lights in the kitchen. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. When I turn on the switch, the light flickers or just partially lights. I ...

Researchers are developing a high-resolution tracking system that uses PDAs and audio directions to guide patients around hospital wards. The system also helps rehabilitate those with traumatic brain ...

The purpose of this procedure is to provide guidance for the disposal of electrical light ballasts that are removed from service during routine maintenance at various North and South campus locations.