HID Control Gear
Besides electronics a broad selection of electromagnetic gear is offered for wide range of lamp types and powers from 35W up to 2000W. You can rely on the experience of Philips and the fact that all Philips lamps are fully released that performance of Philips lamps are best on Philips gear.
Electromagnetic HID gear
Depending on the specific application and/or economic considerations, Philips can supply two types of electromagnetic ballasts; Heavy Duty and Basic gear types.
Heavy Duty gear is fully encapsulated and have a special protected bottom-plate for humid or aggressive environment conditions or were extra long lifetime and high reliability is needed. HID-Basic gear is impregnated for general use in enclosed applications and should not be exposed to humid environments.All electromagnetic gear has been designed for a problem-free lifetime of 10 years continuous operation.
For both MH and high-pressure Sodium gear Philips offers conventional ballasts with internal thermal protection.These types can be recognised by the TS indication.
For the whole range of lamps, a full range of electronic ignitors is offered. Philips prefers and advice customers to use the so-called by Philips developed semi-parallel ignitors (also called impulser type).Together with the gear these ignitors induces ignition-pulses which takes care for reliable lamp-ignition under all conditions for both new and old lamps.The advances of the semi-parallel systems is that gear can be installed remotely (typically 20 meter between gear and lamp is possible). Furthermore has the system much lower watt losses and the ignitor is not in the lamp-current leads and thereby becomes very reliable.
Next step to reliability are the digital ignitors, these ignitor-types detect faulty lamps in an early stage and prevent cycling and unnecessary stress on the system, for CDM lamps these ignitors are obligatory.
Philips gear is designed for lowest watt losses and for ease of use tapping possibilities to select mains-voltages 230/240V, 50Hz and 220/230V, to limit the tables in this OEM-guide only 230/240V types are given.
