- Industry: Energy
- Number of terms: 8202
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- Company Profile:
American conglomerate currently ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company. GE has multifarious business interests including power generation and financial services.
A name for fused silica or melted sand from which many high-temperature containers are fashioned in the lighting industry. Quartz looks like glass but can withstand the high temperatures needed to contain high intensity arc discharges.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A general term for the release of energy in a "wave" or "ray" form. All light is radiant energy or radiation, as is heat, UV, microwaves, radio waves, etc.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Lamp starting method in which lamp filaments are heated while open circuit voltage (OCV) is applied to facilitate lamp ignition.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A fluorescent lamp-ballast circuit that utilizes continuous cathode heating, while the system is energized, to start and maintain lamp light output at efficient levels. Rapid start ballasts may be either electromagnetic, electronic or of hybrid designs. Full-range fluorescent lamp dimming is only possible with rapid start systems (See INSTANT START).
Industry:Lights & lighting
A fluorescent lamp with two pins at each end connected to the filament. The filaments are heated by the ballast to aid in starting. Some rapid start lamps may be instant started without filament heat, for example, the F32T8 lamp.
Industry:Lights & lighting
For most lamp types, rated lamp life is the length of time of a statistically large sample between first use and the point when 50% of the lamps have died. It is possible to define "useful life" of a lamp based on practical considerations involving lumen depreciation and color shift (See LIFE).
Industry:Lights & lighting
The ratio of light reflected from a surface to that incident upon it.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A light source with a built-in reflecting surface. Sometimes, the term is used to refer specifically to blown bulbs like the R and ER lamps; at other times, it includes all reflectorized lamps like PAR and MR.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A shape factor (for a room, etc.) used in lighting calculations. RCR = 5H (L+W) / L x W, or, alternately; RCR = (2.5) Total Wall Area / Floor Area; Where H = height, L = length and W = width of the room; A cubical room will have an RCR of 10; the flatter the room the lower the RCR.
Industry:Lights & lighting
