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 ...

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 ...

For decades, and continuing today, the fluorescent lamp has been the cheapest way to produce white light with the minimum amount of energy taken from the mains (lumens/watt). As such, hundreds of ...

When I wired my bathroom, I left some wires in the ceiling for an exhaust fan and light combo. I didn't get around to installing and wiring it up until today, but in the meantime I had replaced the ...

San Jose, Calif.—Fairchild Semiconductor has introduced the FAN7710, a highly integrated ballast IC specifically developed for compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) designs. Offering a system-in-package (SiP ...

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 ...

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 ...

Users can easily reduce energy usage with dimmers. Dimming technology has evolved considerably over the last decade, especially in the arc discharge lamp category. What began as a device for simply ...

Spartanburg, S.C.-based Prescolite recently entered into a collaboration with Coopersburg, Pa.-based Lutron Electronics, Inc. Three Lutron dimming ballast models — Hi-lume, Compact SE, and Tu-Wire — ...