Fluorescent lighting from BMASS
BMASS Energy Saving Solutions is an authorised distributor for
OKOSTART Electronic Starters for fluorescent lamps and Spectralux Hi Grade
Daylight triphosphor fluorescent tubes.
Electronic Starters
Fluorescent lamps are commonly supplied with 'glow-starters'. Glow-starters,
although inexpensive, do not allow for the efficient starting of fluorescent
tubes and are characterised by flickering on start-up and when the tube or other
lamp components are beginning to fail. The inefficient starting process of
glow-starters significantly shortens the potential life of the tube, often seen
as the blackening at the tube ends from deposits of the cathode filament.
Electronic starters offer a number of advantages:
- optimum pre-heat time for warm tube start and maximum tube life (pre-heating is essential to reduce the wear effect of normal starting procedures),
- absolute flicker free and smooth start of fluorescent lamps (even at reduced supply voltages and temperatures down to minus 20°C),
- no need for replacement of starters (10 Year Replacement Warranty with a life expectancy in excess of 20 years),
- tube life is at least doubled,
- reduced ongoing costs for maintenance and replacement of tubes and starters,
- automatic safety shut-down when lamp fails,
- full thermal and constant circuit safety monitor,
- lamp condition monitor with full safety shutdown protects the whole system from failure (a problem with some T5 luminaire),
- very low EMI during start (less than /-70 db compared to glow starters),
- no residual current unlike conventional glow starters,
- economic and environmentally friendly (extended tube life reduces the amount of waste from tubes, particularly mercury),
- C Tick N15397 against AS/NZS CISPR 15:2002 - compliance with Australian EMC framework.
For further information contact:
BMASS
phone: 07 3206 9668
fax: 07 3829 3821
web: www.bmass.com.au
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