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Magnetic choke for HID lighting
2014-04-15 01:46:13

 High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps require a magnetic choke to apply starting voltage to the lamp and establish current flow – an arc – between the lamp electrodes. Without a ballast, the arc will extinguish or draw increasing current until some circfering of major brand Medium and Mogul Base HPS Lamps.

Metal halide lamps are one of three types of high intensity discharge (HID) lamps in general use. The other two types are mercury and high-pressure sodium lamps. HID lamps have bright light output making them perfect for outdoor lighting.
 
HID ballasts perform the following functions:
 
• Provide voltage to breakdown the gas between the electrodes of arc lamps and initiate starting.
 
• Provide voltage and current to heat the electrodes to allow a low voltage, high current arc mode to develop (referred to as glow-to-arc transition, GAT).
 
• Provide enough current to heat and evaporate the light emitting components after an arc has been established. Provide enough sustaining voltage  to maintain the arc during warm-up and operation.
 
• Set lamp current once all the evaporable materials have reached thermal equilibrium.
 

Magnetic choke kits are used in over 90% of all HID lighting. Replacement high pressure sodium HPS ballasts kits contain the appropriate core and coil, a properly rated ignitor and all components required for ballast replacement. The James lighting, core and coil, HID ballast kit is ideal for a wide variety of lighting applications, including factories, warehouses, gymnasiums and retail stores.uit element burns up. Ballasts provide system stability by limiting the current that can be drawn. 

 

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