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- From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: High Efficiency Fluorescent Lighting was: Re: What really Failed on Fluorescent Lamp
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.022928.22542@ee.ubc.ca>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 02:29:28 GMT
- References: <86132@ut-emx.uucp> <1993Jan4.225724.29960@panix.com> <1993Jan5.055326.2966@klic.rain.com>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
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- In article <1993Jan5.055326.2966@klic.rain.com> keithl@klic.rain.com (Keith Lofstrom) writes:
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- [ high frequency flourescents ]
- >
- >I will second this. I am running my large basement office with 120 watts
- >into 4 tubes running off of two electronic ballasts. It is very bright -
- >perhaps too bright. Much brighter than the 160 watts of T12 40 watt that
- >used to be in here. And brighter still than the 200 watts of rather dim
- >incandescent that were originally in here. No flicker or noticable hum,
- >either (you can hear a slight hum if you park your ear right on the
- >ballast). They also turn on right away, unlike the sputtering startup
- >of the old inductive ballast fixtures.
-
- How much are the high-frequency ballasts, power conversion (60 Hz to whatever
- kHz)?
-
- And most of important, where do you get them? I strongly suspect the local
- lighting hardware guys are going to say 'duuuuuhhh?' when I ask for this.
-
- >
- >Fiat Lux!
- >
- >Keith
- >--
- >Keith Lofstrom keithl@klic.rain.com Voice (503)-520-1993
- >KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
- >Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Power ICs
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