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American conglomerate currently ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company. GE has multifarious business interests including power generation and financial services.
An international system used to rate a lamp's ability to render object colors. The higher the CRI (based upon a 0-100 scale) the richer colours generally appear. CRI ratings of various lamps may be compared, but a numerical comparison is only valid if the lamps are close in colour temperature. CRI differences among lamps are not usually significant (visible to the eye) unless the difference is more than 3-5 points.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Draws attention to the fact that this is a lamp with high colour rendering, which helps objects and persons illuminated to appear more true to life.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A number indicating the degree of "yellowness" or "blueness" of a white light source. Measured in kelvins, CCT represents the temperature an incandescent object (like a filament) must reach to mimic the colour of the lamp. Yellowish-white ("warm") sources, like incandescent lamps, have lower colour temperatures in the 2700K-3000K range; white and bluish-white ("cool") sources, such as cool white (4100K) and natural daylight (6000K), have higher colour temperatures. The higher the colour temperature the whiter, or bluer, the light will be (See CHROMATICITY).
Industry:Lights & lighting
The general term applied to fluorescent lamps that are single-ended and that have smaller diameter tubes that are bent to form a compact shape. Some CFLs have integral ballasts and medium or candelabra screw bases for easy replacement of incandescent lamps.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A term loosely used to denote a colour temperature of around 4100 K. The Cool White (CW) designation is used specifically for T12 and other fluorescent lamps using halophosphors and having a CRI of 62.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Component of electromagnetic ballast that is surrounded by the coil. Core is comprised of steel laminations or solid ferrite material.
Industry:Lights & lighting
An illuminance metre that measures the light level correctly irrespective of the angle the light is coming from. (See ILLUMINANCE METER)
Industry:Lights & lighting
Usually refers to the cost of operating and maintaining a lighting system on an ongoing basis. The 88-8-4 rule states that (typically) 88% is the cost of electricity, 8% is labour and only 4% is the cost of lamps.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Ratio of peak to RMS for any AC waveform. Crest factor can refer to voltage crest factor or current crest factor.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Whether the operational voltage is based on Alternating Current or Direct Current.
Industry:Lights & lighting
