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 ...

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 ...

Fluorescent dimming systems can satisfy visual comfort, and reduce utility costs through daylight harvesting, demand reduction, scheduled dimming, and other strategies. A dimming electronic ballast is ...

Designing Dimming Circuits for Fluorescent Lamps is a challenging task typically realized using a complex, high-pin-count control IC. Compared with non-dimming designs, dimming circuit ICs: Are more ...

Power management specialist International Rectifier has introduced the Mini8, a compact fluorescent lamp ballast control IC that offers full programmability, accuracy and control for all lamp types.

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 ...

New integrated circuits promise to make fluorescent lamps more "green." Get ready for new rules from the Dept. of Energy. Next year, DOE will implement regulations effectively making it impossible to ...