It will soon be lights out for most new fluorescent lighting in Vermont, a development that could accelerate its demise elsewhere and fuel LED lighting’s continued rise. In May, the state became the ...

Dimming fluorescent lamps is an attractive feature that provides mood and brightness effects as well as having tremendous energy savings potential. Designing a dimmable electronic ballast, however, is ...

International Rectifier’s IRS2530D DIM8 ™ in an 8-pin package and IRS2158D in a 16-pin package are dimming ballast control ICs with integrated half-bridge drivers. The ICs provide the basis for four ...

Users can easily reduce energy usage with dimmers. Dimming technology has evolved considerably over the last decade, especially in the arc discharge lamp category. What began as a device for simply ...

International Rectifier has two new control ICs for dimming compact and tube-type fluorescents. Most designers won’t ever see them, though, because they go into the bases of compact bulbs or into ...

The quest for energy efficiency has led manufacturers to investigate ways of dimming all kinds of lighting technologies, including those that usually can’t be dimmed. Consider, for example, ...