UV Electric's LS Series is the most comprehesive high power electronic ballast product line-up offered today on the market. These ballasts, or power supplies designed to drive gaseous discharge lamps, power medium pressure UV lamps with a medium frequency, 400Hz square wave to assure stable, acoustic resonance free lamp operation. The underlying technology, a combination of high and medium frequency power processing, improves response, shrinks package size, and reduces cost.

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A ballast is required to adapt the gaseous discharge lamp, in this instance the UV source, to the mains. The ballast ignites and drives the lamp at a desired power level as long as the output specifications are met or the lamp doesn’t fail. For optimal operation and long lamp life, it is important that the ballast provides adequate open circuit ignition voltage, quick glow-to-arc transition, and low current crest factor in normal operation.

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