Ballast (electrical) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-19

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00:00:58 1 Current limiting
00:02:25 2 Resistors
00:02:34 2.1 Fixed resistors
00:06:12 2.2 Self-variable resistors
00:08:43 3 Reactive ballasts
00:12:27 4 Electronic and magnetic ballasts
00:17:40 5 Fluorescent lamp ballasts
00:17:50 5.1 Preheating
00:20:34 5.2 Instant start
00:21:46 5.3 Rapid start
00:22:55 5.4 Dimmable ballast
00:23:44 5.5 Programmed start
00:24:42 5.6 Hybrid
00:25:23 6 ANSI Ballast factor
00:26:18 7 Ballast triode
00:26:47 8 See also



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An electrical ballast is a device placed in line with the load to limit the amount of current in an  electrical circuit. It may be a fixed or variable resistor.
A familiar and widely used example is the inductive ballast used in fluorescent lamps to limit the current through the tube, which would otherwise rise to a destructive level due to the negative differential resistance of the tube's voltage-current characteristic.
Ballasts vary greatly in complexity. They may be as simple as a resistor, inductor or capacitor (or a combination of these) wired in series with the lamp; or as complex as the electronic ballasts used in compact fluorescent lamps and high-intensity discharge lamps.