Re: Reference book/articles on fluorescent lamps

In article <l9ddc1l3n82dl7jia14ak1f7o0801ku708@xxxxxxx>, xxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
says...
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005 21:06:52 -0700, George Pontis <gpontis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >Can anyone recommend a book or authoritative site on fluorescent lamp technology ?
> >Hopefully something new enough to include the newer T5 and CFL lamps. The kind of
> >info that I hope to learn (or at least have available) is both theoretical and
> >practical. Some examples: what are the aging mechansism in these lamps, what are
> >the electrical characterisitics, discussion on efficiency as determined by various
> >lamp styles, table of nominal design currents for various lamps. I wouldn't mind
> >paying the going rate for a good quality reference book if such exists.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >George
>
> Text book - Electric Discharge Lamps by John Waymouth. Out of print
> but it has been stated here that photocopies can be purchased from the
> publisher, MIT Press.
>
> Design currents are hard to come by. Philips and Osram used to publish
> the design currents for their lamps, but do not any more. The design
> currents for most lamps are published in standards published by two
> organizations:
>
> IEC 60081 - Double Capped Fluorescent Lamps - performance
> specifications
>
> IEC 60901 - Single Capped Fluorescent Lamps - performance
> specifications.
> ... (skipping other good references)

Thank you Victor for some excellent references. I spent the morning look through
these links and found some good info in the freely available data. The Advanced
Lighting Guidelines was an excellent and readable reference in the areas that it
addressed. But the heart of it, for me, seems to be in the IEC references. I
identified at least 4 that I would like to have, but as you say they are
expensive. All that I saw were over $200, and some had one or two addendums at
another $100 or so each... I guess that the notion of getting everything from a
single book was just a dream.
.

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