- 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.
The general lighting present in an area --excluding task lighting and accent lighting but including general lighting and daylight streaming in.
Industry:Lights & lighting
("Amps.") A measure of electrical current. In incandescent lamps, the current is related to voltage and power as follows: Watts (power) = Volts x Amps (current).
Industry:Lights & lighting
Also called "lighting application," it refers to the particular use the lamp is being put to. (e.g. high-bay industrial application or retail lighting application.) The term can also refer in a general way to "application engineering" which deals with specific paramters and usage of light sources. (e.g. how to do a lighting layout, where to place fixtures and so on.)
Industry:Lights & lighting
Intense luminous discharge formed by the passage of electric current in a gaseous medium across a space between electrodes. (See ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE).
Industry:Lights & lighting
A light source containing an arc (see above). Also called a discharge lamp, or an arc discharge lamp (See ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE).
Industry:Lights & lighting
In High Intensity Discharge lamps this is the distance between the electrode tips, which represents the physical length of the electrical discharge.
Industry:Lights & lighting
This field designates the type of gas or vacuum filling a volume or chamber of the lamp. This chamber might contain a filament or it might refer to the bulb which contains the arc tube.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Circuit senses lamp end life and will automatically shut off power to the lamp(s). When a new lamp is inserted in the socket, the ballast resets, and turns on the lamp automatically. Some shutdown circuits require the power to be interrupted before a new lamp will re-light.
Industry:Lights & lighting
An auxiliary piece of equipment required to start and to properly control the flow of current to gas discharge light sources such as fluorescent and high intensity discharge (HID) lamps. Typically, magnetic ballasts (also called electromagnetic ballasts) contain copper windings on an iron core while electronic ballasts are smaller and more efficient and contain electronic components.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Defined as ballast factor divided by input watts. The value is used to evaluate various lighting systems based on light output and power input. The BEF can only be used to compare systems operating the same type and quantity of lamps.
Industry:Lights & lighting
