The Top Five Global Lighting Technologies

Focus:

Compact fluorescent, linear fluorescent, halogen, high-intensity discharge (HID), and light-emitting diode (LED) lamps require different types of power control circuits.

What you’ll learn:

• How to understand the different power requirements of fluorescent, halogen, HID, and LED lamps
• How to design lamp ballasts for different types of lamps (overview)

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Author & Publication:

Tom Ribarich, Director, Lighting IC Design Center, International Rectifier, El Segundo, Calif., Power Electronics Technology, Oct 01 2004

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