The high-intensity discharge (HID) lamp offers a host of benefits for a broad range of lighting applications, even as the LED revolution in lighting continues apace. Although subsequent legislation ...

Lighting ballasts are as essential to a fluorescent lamp as an engine is to a car. In essence, they provide the power behind the light, serving as both an inhibitor to limit the flow of current and as ...

New integrated circuits help control high-intensity discharge lamps that deliver super-efficient illumination. Tom Ribarich, Director, Lighting Systems, International Rectifier, El Segundo, Calif., ...

Electronic HID (high intensity discharge lamp) ballasts: how they work, how to control them, and develop an electronic ballast solution for outdoor lighting applications. Hbrightness metal halide ...

Despite the long history of development and use of high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps, many in the industry expect that they will soon become extinct, given the rapid growth of light-emitting diode ...