Inventors:
John Francis Waymouth - Marblehead MA, US
Robert Thomas Nachtrieb - Lansdale PA, US
Farheen Khan - Coopersburg PA, US
Mark Alan Hartfield - Saint Joseph MI, US
Mark Stephen Taipale - Harleysville PA, US
Renzo Corrado DeMeo - Huntington NY, US
Russell Lawrence MacAdam - Coopersburg PA, US
Assignee:
Lutron Electronics Co., Inc. - Coopersburg PA
International Classification:
H05B 39/00
G05F 1/00
US Classification:
315 94, 315105, 315224, 315291
Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for measuring cathode fall in fluorescent lamps are disclosed. Together with measurements of cathode temperature, such measurements of cathode fall may inform a determination of cathode heater voltage as a function of discharge current (i. e. , a cathode-heating-profile) that avoids both sputtering and excess-evaporation.