Fluorescent Light Ballast Tutorial

["George Booth" <gbooth at frii_com>]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but the folks that make
Advance fluorescent ballasts have an excellent tutorial on their website:

http://www.advancetransformer.com/techcenter/flb/purpose.asp

Well worth reading if you've ever wondered how these things work. I found a
few surprises there that they didn't teach me in Electrical Engineering 101
(of course, they didn't have fluorescent lights back then...).

George Booth in Ft. Collins, CO (gbooth at frii dot com)
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