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General Electric
Industry: Energy
Number of terms: 8202
Number of blossaries: 3
Company Profile:
American conglomerate currently ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company. GE has multifarious business interests including power generation and financial services.
Ballast type used to operate lamp in accordance with ASNI standard.
Industry:Lights & lighting
These are 3-letter codes assigned by the American National Standards Institute. They provide a system of assuring mechanical and electrical interchangeability among similarly coded lamps from various manufacturers. General Electric uses the assigned ANSI Codes as Lamp Ordering Codes for most Projection Lamps.
Industry:Lights & lighting
GE trademark for its biaxial family of high-efficiency and long-life compact fluorescent lamps. A straight tube is bent back in the middle, constituting a biaxial tube.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Indicates ballast complies with Canadian Energy Standards and meets the requirements of CAN/CSA C654-M91.
Industry:Lights & lighting
An organization that writes standards and tests lighting equipment for performance as well as electrical and fire safety. Canadian provincial laws generally require that all products sold for consumer use in Canada must have CSA or equivalent approval.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A type of metal halide lamp that uses a ceramic material for the arc tube instead of glass quartz, resulting in better color rendering (>80 CRI) and improved lumen maintenance. GE ConstantColor® CMH® lamps feature a 3-piece arc tube design that delivers excellent color consistency and lamp reliability.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A GE brand name for metal halide lamps designed to operate on HPS ballasts, allowing a user to switch from the yellowish color of HPS to the white color of metal halide without changing ballasts. These products are available in both quartz metal halide and ceramic metal halide (CMH) versions.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Designates a ballast meets or exceeds the requirements of Public Law 100-357 establishing standards of efficiency.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A switching device sensitive to current and heat that automatically disconnects ballast if the temperature exceeds UL temperature limitations.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A GE Registered name for lamp families which show very little color shift over life. Generally applies to GE's PRECISE MR-16 and GE's CMH (Ceramic Metal Halide) lamps.
Industry:Lights & lighting