China manufacturer of magnetic ballasts for metal halide flood lights & hps flood lights

Starter  is a stand-alone device or circuit, can also be included in the lamp, power supply and electronic ballast; can be in power supply voltage independently initiate lamp, and power source, ballast and other device combination together the interaction the lamp start principle of gas discharge light sources different in thermal radiation source, the power supply is switched on and can not light, but a startup process, namely point unlit process. Each discharge lamp has a corresponding ignition voltage (also known as the breakdown voltage), only when the tube ends of the voltage over the ignition voltage, it is possible to build a gas discharge, the lamp will light. The ignition voltage of the discharge lamp is up to tens of thousands of volts, while others are as low as hundreds of volts. So the power of a single switch, the general discharge lamp is not likely to be lit. In the circuit must offer more than the gas discharge light source ignition voltage generating device. This is the starter according to the theory of gas discharge, gas discharge lamp ignition voltage under certain conditions can be reduced, such as cathode preheating, coated on the surface of the light conductive film, or a conductive belt, installation auxiliary electrode, the tube filled with Penning Gas, lights added radioactive material, the high frequency voltage. Therefore, according to the different gas discharge light source type, has gradually formed the main effect of different starter starter is starting the lamp, the lamp light, once the discharge lamp is lit, the starter will not work, wait until the next time when lighting to use. So the starter shall be as simple as possible, light and reliable, and some can even in discharge lamp lighting from the circuit removed without affecting the discharge lamp of the normal work of various types of gas discharge lamp starter.

According to working principle can be divided into 3 categories:

A). In the discharge lamp circuit or in discharge lamp structure to take measures to reduce the ignition voltage of the discharge lamp, in the power supply voltage or produced in a circuit under high voltage, the discharge lamp start light. The starter is: not necessarily a device
To the starter, but multiple devices or the whole circuit can play the role of starter. For example, part of the fluorescent lamp and high-pressure mercury lamp starter

B). In the discharge lamp circuit is a circuit part as a starter, it produces a higher pulse voltage at both ends of the discharge lamp, under supply voltage of the lamp start light. These parameters include: Starter pulse peak voltage, pulse width,

The rise time of the pulse, the pulse voltage at the power supply voltage of the phase range and energy etc.. For example, high pressure sodium lamp starter

C) in discharge lamp circuit is a circuit part as a starter, it produced intermittent oscillation of high frequency voltage on both ends of the discharge lamp, under the supply voltage of the lamp start light, also known as the high frequency high voltage starter.

These parameters are: high frequency voltage starter, peak frequency, intermittent oscillation repetition frequency and energy etc.. The general ignition voltage is very high (up to tens of thousands of volts) of the discharge lamp using such starter. Such as short arc xenon lamp starter and part of the metal halide lamp starter in the practical application, often press the lamp's name starter for fluorescent lamps also known as starter.