Q: My home is about 20 years old. My problem is with the lights in the kitchen. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don’t. When I turn on the switch, the light flickers or just partially lights. I ...

In a common kind of fluorescent tube, a high voltage tears some electrons away from mercury vapor atoms—it's a brief pulse, so that mostly certain electrons and their band of transition energies are ...

Unplug the fixture or turn off the power at the main panel. Remove the diffuser (cover), then carefully remove the ...

IN a paper before the Illuminating Engineering Society on April 14, Mr. J. N. Aldington pointed out that two types of fluorescent lamp have been developed within the last decade, both of which employ ...

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 ...