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What is a ballast?
What exactly is a ballast? Why do people want to have a special ballast? What is the reason? Thanks. |
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On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 03:23:35 -0700, Aaron wrote:
What exactly is a ballast? Why do people want to have a special ballast? What is the reason? Thanks. It starts the flourescent lights. Sometimes refered to as a "Starter" |
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On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 03:23:35 -0700, Aaron wrote:
What exactly is a ballast? Why do people want to have a special ballast? What is the reason? Thanks. Google is your friend: Ballast : A device used with an electric-discharge lamp to obtain the necessary circuit conditions (voltage, current and wave form) for starting and operating |
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Typically a "light ballast" is a system that incorporates fluorescent
tubes. The ballast as Tom stated typically steps up the voltage from normal (North American) 120V to something in the thousands of volts. There are different fluorescent tubes for different applications. Typically if you intend on keeping plants in an aquarium than there are tubes that reproduce light in that part of the spectrum that plants need in order to grow. And that's where I stop this message, as I'm more of electronics doo-dad geek than a biology one. smiles |
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I read that T1 flurorescent tubes need special ballast.
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