Patent ID: 6411041
Filing Date: 2002-06-25
Classification: H05B,Y10S

Abstract:
A non-thermionic fluorescent lighting system comprising a plurality of non-thermionic fluorescent lamps each having a length selected from two-, four-, and eight-foot lengths and a pair of electrode ends, an electrode mounted in said fluorescent lamp at each end, respectively, a pair of rigid conductive external mounting pins secured to each electrode end with at least one of said pins being electrically connected to an electrode, respectively, a first wire circuit connecting at least two of said mounting pins in two lamps electrically together so that all said lamps are serially connected leaving a pair of electrode ends and their respective mounting pins free for connection to a high-frequency alternating current driving voltage source for starting and operating all said fluorescent lamps, said high-frequency alternating current driving voltage source having a pair of output terminals, a second wire circuit connecting one of said output terminals to one free electrode end of said plurality of fluorescent lamps and a third wire circuit connecting the other of said output terminals to the remaining free electrode end of said plurality of fluorescent lamps.