Fluorescent light driver, my project No. 10 (versions 1 to 9 will be reported when I have my own homepage ready) A 12 V fluorescent lamp driver is one of the most critical circuits which you can make.

The brightness of a fluorescent light bulb or neon tube cannot adjust as easily as that of a incandescent bulb because it starts only when a voltage is much higher than that of the network, then ...

I've run into a weird lighting problem at work, and the obvious candidates are seemingly ruled out. Here's what I have: I have two circuits lighting a large room. Each circuit is double switched (with ...

If you’re going camping this summer, or just want a cheap emergency lantern powered by a pair of AA batteries, you probably can’t do much better than [rimstar]’s Joule thief compact florescent lantern ...

Sure, you could animate some Halloween lights using a microcontroller, some random number generation and some LEDs, and if the decorations are powered by AC, you could use some relays with your ...

We all know how energy efficient compact fluorescent bulbs are, and we’ve all been hearing for the past couple years how we should replace every light bulb in our house with a CFL. But have you ever ...