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 ...

Dimming fluorescent lamps is an attractive feature that provides mood and brightness effects as well as having tremendous energy savings potential. Designing a dimmable electronic ballast, however, is ...

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 ...

If you want to improve lighting system efficiency, ballast selection is critical. Today's most popular energy-efficient lighting designs involve new ballasts. Because ballast technology is constantly ...

The ULTim8 Programmed Start Series of T8 linear fluorescent ballasts features parallel lamp operation and start times of less than 700 msec, according to the company. Part of the NEMA Premium ...

An electronic ballast, in simplistic terms, takes a mains supply and transforms the energy to a storage capacitor, which in turn powers a half bridge to provide frequency-controlled power for a ...

International Rectifier (IR) announces the IRS2526DS "Mini8" compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) ballast control IC that features full programmability and a high degree of accuracy and control for all lamp ...