On Starter Transients for Starting a Fluorescent Lamp

Fluorescent Lamp Modelling for Voltage Fluctuations

Fiat Lux: A Fluorescent Lamp Tkansceiver

The prevalence of electric discharge illumination has led us to consider ways to use discharge lamps for communication. This paper describes an optical transceiver system which transmits by modulating the lamp arc. The prototype power electronic lamp ballast uses a pulse frequency modulation scheme which ensures no perceptible flicker.

Starting transients in sea urchin sperm flagella

Live sea urchin spermatozoa were rendered immotile by lowered pH; Triton-extracted spermatozoa were rendered immotile by either lowered pH or by deprivation of ATP. The spermatozoa began to beat after an increase in pH or as ATP was supplied, and the first bends were recorded on ciné film. Triton-extracted spermatozoa deprived of ATP retained a partially formed basal bend which could be either ...

Fluorescent method for monitoring cheese starter permeabilization and lysis.

A fluorescence method to monitor lysis of cheese starter bacteria using dual staining with the LIVE/DEAD BacLight bacterial viability kit is described. This kit combines membrane-permeant green fluorescent nucleic acid dye SYTO 9 and membrane-impermeant red fluorescent nucleic acid dye propidium iodide (PI), staining damaged membrane cells fluorescent red and intact cells fluorescent green. For...

Electrical feedback control for driving mercury-free flat fluorescent lamp

Joung-Hu Park Jong-Bok Baek Bo-Hyung Cho Abstract — Recently, a mercury-free flat fluorescent lamp has been developed for LCD backlight application, utilizing a glow-discharge mode instead of a discharge contraction. This paper proposes a lamp-driving system with a feedback loop which prevents discharge contraction and stabilizes the operation of the lamp ignition and radiation. By measuring th...