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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These NEMA-approved ballasts provide up to 45% energy savings, according to the company. The ballasts operate one, two, three, or four T8 lamps at a universal voltage range of 108V to 305V. In ...

This reference design integrates Zilog’s ZAURA RF 868 MHz Wireless Module onto a Fluorescent Ballast Base Power Board to create a Fluorescent Ballast Demonstration Board designed to showcase the ...