Homes and Gardens on MSN

The Library: All the Basics You Need to Know About Lighting Before Starting Your Next Project, According to the Experts

Olga Malyev, cofounder of Malyev Schafer, shares her top placement tip for recessed lighting: 'Follow the furniture lines,' ...
Electronic Design

Shedding Light on HID Ballast Control

Aided by a new full-bridge controller, a popular electronic HID ballast topology manages lamp operation, while enhancing lamp safety. Tom Ribarich, Director, Lighting IC Design Center, International ...
Decluttering Mom on MSN

5 Antique Lamps and Light Fixtures With Big Collector Value

Lighting has a funny way of setting the mood-and sometimes, setting your bank account a little higher than expected. Antique ...
Electronic Design

Microcontrollers Simplify Lamp Ballast Design

An 8-bit microcontroller can implement the essential functions of an electronic ballast for HID or fluorescent lamps, while enabling many desirable features. Today's design engineers are faced with ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Problem with flickering fluorescent light could be ballast

Q: My home is about 20 years old. My problem is with the lights in the kitchen. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. When I turn on the switch, the light flickers or just partially lights. I ...
EDN

Infineon applies sub-micron silicon to lighting ballasts

MUNICH, Germany — Infineon Technologies AG has launched a fluorescent lamp ballast controller that features intelligent digital/mixed signal power control. The ICB2FL01G lamp ballast controller ...