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 ...

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 ...

Rosslyn, Va.-based National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) has published BL 2-2009, "Energy Efficiency for Electronic Ballasts for T8 Fluorescent Lamps." The standard was developed by ...

With the rapid development of high brightness LEDs, SSL (Solid State Lighting) is no longer a niche market. In commercial buildings and department stores LED fixtures are chosen over fluorescents ...

EC&M selected the F28T8 UltraMax System by GE Lighting as the Product of the Week. The 28W fluorescent lamp and ballast system includes multi-voltage control and anti-striation protection. The F28T8 ...

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 ...

International Rectifier's (IR) IR2520D is a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) ballast control IC that adapts to changing supply voltage, frequency and lamp conditions to increase lamp life and ...

You don't need to embark on a massive renovation to get high-end LED performance. The transition from old T8 technology to modern linear retrofit solutions is the fastest way to upgrade your space.

A new device from the United States could make fluorescent lighting even more efficient than it already is. Standard fluorescent lights save four times more energy than an ordinary light bulb, but ...

For decades, and continuing today, the fluorescent lamp has been the cheapest way to produce white light with the minimum amount of energy taken from the mains (lumens/watt). As such, hundreds of ...