- Industry: Energy
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American conglomerate currently ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company. GE has multifarious business interests including power generation and financial services.
Comprehensive energy legislation passed by the U. S. Congress in 1992. The lighting portion includes lamp labelling and minimum energy efficacy (lumens/watt) requirements for many commonly used incandescent and fluorescent lamp types. Federal Canadian legislation sets similar minimum energy efficacy requirements for incandescent reflector lamps and common linear fluorescent lamps.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Means this lamp is Federally regulated for Energy Efficiency (See ENERGY POLICY ACT).
Industry:Lights & lighting
A curve depicting the sensitivity of the human eye as a function of wavelength (or color). The peak of human eye sensitivity is in the yellow-green region of the spectrum. The normal curve refers to photopic vision or the response of the cones. (See Photopic, Scotopic, Fovea, Foveal vision)
Industry:Lights & lighting
The U. S. Federal agency that regulates emissions in the radio frequency portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Part 18 of the FCC rules specifies electromagnetic interference (EMI) from lighting devices operating at frequencies greater than 9 kilohertz (kHz). Typical electronically-ballasted compact fluorescent lamps operate in the 24 - 100 kHz frequency range.
Industry:Lights & lighting
The angular dimension of the cone of light from reflectorized lamps (such as R and PAR types) encompassing the central part of the beam out to the angle where the intensity is 10% of maximum (See BEAM ANGLE).
Industry:Lights & lighting
Metal tungsten wire heated by the passage of electrical current, used to emit light in incandescent lamps. In fluorescent lamps the filament is coated with emission mix and emits electrons when heated.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Filaments are designated by a letter combination in which C is a coiled wire filament, CC is a coiled wire that is itself wound into a larger coil, and SR is a straight ribbon filament. Numbers represent the type of filament-support arrangement.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Filaments are designed to get to operating temperature when an appropriate voltage is applied, e.g. 120 volts or 12 volts in the case of incandescent lamps or MR16 lamps. In certain fluorescent lamps the filament voltage is the low voltage applied to the cathode to enrgize it for electron emission.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Describes fixture requirements for HID lamps. O = Open or Enclosed Fixtures; E = Enclosed Fixtures Only; S = Lamps operated in a vertical position (Base Up or Down) ±15º, can be used in an open fixture. Lamps burned in any other orientation must be used in "enclosed fixtures only." See additional details in the e-Catalog Help Menu under the HID category.
Industry:Lights & lighting
The periodic variation in light level caused by AC operation that can lead to strobe effects.
Industry:Lights & lighting
