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HID Control Gear
3.103OEM Catalogue 2009/2010
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.