Patent ID: 6429593
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: H05B

Abstract:
A modular lighting device for theatre, film and studio lighting devices, the lighting device comprising:a discharge lamp arranged in a lamp housing having a rear side with one of an adapter and an adapter connection, a ballast and basic starting device having a current-limiting circuit and a housing with one of an adapter and an adapter connection, an external starting device having a starting circuit and arranged in a housing with one of an adapter and an adapter connection, a connecting cable connecting the external starting device to the ballast and basic starting device, and wherein one of the adapter and the adapter connection of the lamp housing mechanically couples to one of the adapter and the adapter connection of the ballast and basic starting device and mechanically couples to one of the adapter and the adapter connection of the external starting device, such that a structural unit is produced, and wherein, upon coupling of the lamp housing to the housing of the external starting device, an electric connection of the discharge lamp to the starting circuit of the external starting device and to the current-limiting circuit of the ballast and basic starting device via the connecting cable is produced.