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    An electrical ballast is a device placed in series with a load to limit the amount of current in an electrical circuit. A familiar and widely used example...
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  • a neighborhood in Tampa, Florida, US Electrical ballast, used to stabilize the current flow in lamps Ballast tractor, a heavy-haulage road vehicle designed...
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    atmospheres, and require special fixtures to operate safely, as well as an electrical ballast. Metal atoms produce most of the light output. They require a warm-up...
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    around one atmosphere and require special fixtures, as well as an electrical ballast. They also require a warm-up period of four to seven minutes to reach...
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    to strike the arc. This requires an electrical circuit called an igniter, which is part of the electrical ballast circuitry. After the arc is struck,...
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    Electric arc (redirect from Electrical arc)
    impedance (as an electrical ballast) be placed in the circuit to maintain a stable arc. This property is the reason uncontrolled electrical arcs in apparatus...
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  • Community-controlled game, a video game genre Copper Control Gear (CCG), a type of Electrical ballast Switch Start for lighting, alternative to ECG (Electronic Control...
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    environment inside the lamp. Fluorescent tanning lamps require an electrical ballast to limit the amount of current going through the lamp. While the resistance...
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    traditional lighting units using incandescent light bulbs, HMIs need electrical ballasts, which are separated from the head via a header cable, to limit current...
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  • and the bulbs. Markings on the light components indicate that the electrical ballast was manufactured in 1975, the troffer manufactured in 1973 in Reading...
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    fraction of the electrical energy input into a lamp is converted to useful light. The ballast dissipates some heat; electronic ballasts may be around 90%...
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  • and power-down (negative-going) thresholds. Typical usages include: Electrical ballast circuits to switch them off in the event of voltage falling below...
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    arc eventually rises to exceed the maximum voltage output by the electrical ballast. As the lamp heats to this point, the arc fails, and the lamp goes...
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    Light fixture (category Electrical systems)
    an outer shell or housing for lamp alignment and protection, an electrical ballast or power supply, and a shade to diffuse the light or direct it towards...
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  • containing argon, mercury and metal halides. The lamp is powered by an electrical ballast, which regulates the current flow through the arc in the arctube,...
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    convert the electrical energy using an electrical ballast, to maintain the proper current and voltage, but some energy is lost in the ballast. Similarly...
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    an HPS ballast has an igniter which ignites the sodium in an HPS bulb, while a MH ballast does not. Because of this, all electrical ballasts can fire...
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    Variable-frequency drives and motors.:) Electrical ballast Simpson, James. "The how and why of current-limiting reactors". EC&M Electrical Construction & Maintenance...
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    vapor lamp and two infrared lamps, which act both as light source and electrical ballast Assorted types of fluorescent lamps. The miniaturized Deep Space Atomic...
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    maintain the arc eventually rises to exceed the voltage provided by the electrical ballast. As the lamp heats to this point, the arc fails and the lamp goes...
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    constructed high voltage transformer with high leakage inductance or other electrical ballast to limit the available current (see neon sign). When the current through...
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    000 lighting fixtures in the offices, all of which can be dimmed. The electrical ballast in each fixture contains a computer chip, which adjusts the lighting...
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    The plant was performing handloading for air bombs, manufacturing electrical ballast and fuzes. In a remote and secret part, expanded in 1943- 1944, were...
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    at a lower voltage. The "strike" requires an electrical circuit with an igniter and a ballast. The ballast is wired in series with the lamp and performs...
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  • Current limiting (category Electrical power control)
    example) Current limiter with PNP transistors Current source Crowbar Electrical ballast Fault current limiter Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill, The Art of Electronics...
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    Peter Cooper Hewitt (category American electrical engineers)
    electrodes and the liquid mercury; later he developed the inductive electrical ballast to start the tube. The efficiency was much higher than that of incandescent...
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  • excellent electrical insulating properties. It is used in oil-filled wet transformers, some types of high-voltage capacitors, fluorescent lamp ballasts, and...
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  • battery Contact breaker Crank sensor Distributor Dynamo Drive by wire Electrical ballast Electronic control unit Engine control unit Glow plug High tension...
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    other high-intensity discharge lamps, they require a correctly rated electrical ballast in order to operate. List of light sources Simpson, Robert S. (2003)...
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    mass-market lamps as to overall shape, power rating, length, color, and other electrical and illuminating characteristics. In the United States and Canada, lamps...
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