Despite brisk sales of 4-ft T12 fluorescent lamps, the magnetic ballasts commonly used for the lamps’ operation will start becoming part of the past on July 1, 2010, when their continued manufacture ...

Creative and innovative new products in both the lamp and ballast markets continue to transform the lighting industry, enabling specifiers and users to translate “energy-effective lighting” into ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Older linear fluorescent fixtures used throughout most of the older buildings on the Western Michigan University campus utilized T12 type magnetic ballasts. This type of ballast operates at 60 hertz ...

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 ...

Santee Cooper's Reduce the Use initiative has helped customers save over 60 million kilowatt-hours of electricity since its launch two years ago. Customers are able to take advantage of a suite of ...

“Efficiency” continues to be the buzzword in the lighting industry, and as its use continues to grow, the lamps used to meet its demands continue to get smaller. The smaller-is-better trend has been ...

Electronic ballasts for fluorescent lighting deliver high efficiency and long lamp lifetimes. A new and simplified control circuit demonstrates complete control of the ballast, including all necessary ...

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 ...