- Industry: Energy
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American conglomerate currently ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company. GE has multifarious business interests including power generation and financial services.
Ballasts with power factor less than .90 and do not incorporate any means of Power Factor Correction.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Open Circuit Voltage measured across the socket the lamp screws into, with the ballast powered on. It is dangerous to stick a voltmeter into such a socket without precise knowledge of the ballast because exceedingly high voltages could be present.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Lamps that are approved for burning in open fixtures (as opposed to enclosed fixtures which have an acrylic lens or plate glass enclosure).
Industry:Lights & lighting
Mercury and High Pressure Sodium lamps may be operated in any burn position and will still maintain their rated performance specifications. Metal Halide and Low Pressure Sodium lamps, however, are optimized for performance in specific burn positions, or may be restricted to certain burn positions for safety reasons. U = Universal burning position; HBU = Horizontal -15º to Base Up; HBD = Horizontal +15º to Base Down; HOR = Horizontal ±15º; H45 = Horizontal to -45º only; VBU = Vertical Base Up ±15º; VBD = Vertical Base Down ±15º. If no special burn position is noted, the burn position is universal.
Industry:Lights & lighting
For electrical discharge lamps, this is the voltage measured across the discharge when the lamp is operating. It is governed by the contents of the chamber and is somewhat independent of the ballast and other external factors.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Refers to ballasts that employ multiple output current paths from a single ballast to allow lamps to operate independent of one another, allowing other lamps operated by the ballast to remain lit should companion lamp(s) fail.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Chemical pollutant formerly used in ballast capacitors that were part of ballasts. It is now illegal to use PCB's and most such ballasts have been replaced over time.
Industry:Lights & lighting
An inorganic chemical compound processed into a powder and deposited on the inner glass surface of fluorescent tubes and some mercury and metal-halide lamp bulbs. Phosphors are designed to absorb short wavelength ultraviolet radiation and to transform and emit it as visible light (See FLOURESCENCE).
Industry:Lights & lighting
Vision for which the cones in the eye are responsible; typically at high brightness and in the foveal or central region (See SCOTOPIC, FOVEA, FOVEAL VISON).
Industry:Lights & lighting
