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Los Angeles, CA / A fascinating look into ballast technology, the unsung hero that regulates fluorescent, HID and other gas-discharge lamps. #ballasts
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Fluorescent Lighting
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Fluorescent Lighting / Fluorescent lamps have two electrical requirements. To start the lamp, a high voltage surge is needed to establish an arc in the mercury vapor. Once the lamp is started, the gas offers a decreasing amount of resistance, which means that current must be regulated to match this drop. Otherwise, the lamp would draw more and more power and rapidly burn itself out.
Vintage Ballasts
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Vintage Ballasts / The first commercially available fluorescent lights hit the market in 1938. The ballasts of those times were only electromagnetic core & coil type. Some of the vintage #ballasts here are still in working condition some 60 years later!
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Our Likes / Here are some ballast and non-ballast related pictures we found on Pinterest.
Metal Halide
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Metal Halide / An electric light that produces light by an electric arc through a gaseous mixture of vaporized mercury and metal halides (compounds of metals with bromine or iodine). It is a type of high-intensity discharge (HID) gas discharge lamp. Developed in the 1960s, they are similar to mercury vapor lamps,but contain additional metal halide compounds in the arc tube, which improve the efficiency and color rendition of the light.
High Pressure Sodium
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High Pressure Sodium / A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light. There are two varieties of such lamps: low pressure and high pressure. Low-pressure sodium lamps are the most efficient electrical light sources, but their yellow light restricts applications to outdoor lighting such as street lamps. High-pressure sodium lamps have a broader spectrum of light but poorer color rendering than other types.
Compact Fluorescent
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Compact Fluorescent / A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light, and compact fluorescent tube, is a fluorescent lamp designed to replace an incandescent lamp; some types fit into light fixtures formerly used for incandescent lamps. The lamps use a tube which is curved or folded to fit into the space of an incandescent bulb, and a compact electronic ballast in the base of the lamp.
LED
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LED
Ballasts.com Products
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Ballasts.com Products / Choose from our large selection of fluorescent, HID, CFL, LED, and emergency ballasts from top manufacturers. Get the web's best price with free shipping on selected orders
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Ballasts.com - 2-Port Ballast Disconnect Connector ! If you're looking for the best ballast disconnect that will ensure a safe lamp or ballast replacement? Take a look at our Series 873 2-port Ballast Disconnect Connector! #SeeMoreDetails: http://www.ballasts.com/

Ballasts.com - 2-Port Ballast Disconnect Connector ! If you're looking for the best ballast disconnect that will ensure a safe lamp or ballast replacement? Take a look at our Series 873 2-port Ballast Disconnect Connector! #SeeMoreDetails: http://www.ballasts.com/

Emergency lighting shall be provided by using a standard fluorescent fixture equipped with a Howard BAL500 emergency ballast. http://ow.ly/uOAl9

Emergency lighting shall be provided by using a standard fluorescent fixture equipped with a Howard BAL500 emergency ballast. http://ow.ly/uOAl9

Emergency lighting shall be provided by using a quad or triple twin-tube compact fluorescent fixture equipped with a BAL650C-2 http://ow.ly/uK2Hj

Emergency lighting shall be provided by using a quad or triple twin-tube compact fluorescent fixture equipped with a BAL650C-2 http://ow.ly/uK2Hj

#Dimming #ballasts are electronic devices for #fluorescent lamps that are energy efficient while increasing the range of illuminates. http://ow.ly/uso2x

#Dimming #ballasts are electronic devices for #fluorescent lamps that are energy efficient while increasing the range of illuminates. http://ow.ly/uso2x

Selecting #CFL for lighting is an essential decision for affective power consumption and lighting efficient with every use. http://ow.ly/usf0U

Selecting #CFL for lighting is an essential decision for affective power consumption and lighting efficient with every use. http://ow.ly/usf0U

CFL ballast are electronic devices that are used for compact fluorescent lamps. http://ow.ly/upw6p

CFL ballast are electronic devices that are used for compact fluorescent lamps. http://ow.ly/upw6p

Exterior + lighting
Today's Ballast Nation #throwbackthursday moment: Two men in an office with gas lighting, which required iron #ballasts.

Today's Ballast Nation #throwbackthursday moment: Two men in an office with gas lighting, which required iron #ballasts.

Just makes you say "Awwwwwww"