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General Electric
Industria: Energy
Number of terms: 8202
Number of blossaries: 3
Company Profile:
American conglomerate currently ranked by Forbes as the world's largest company. GE has multifarious business interests including power generation and financial services.
Lighting design for building interiors that makes of daylight as a way of reducing energy consumption.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A lamp resembling the colour of daylight, typically with a colour temperature of 5500 K to 6500K
Industry:Lights & lighting
A reflector (or filter) that reflects one region of the spectrum while allowing the other region(s) to pass through. A reflector lamp with a dichroic reflector will have a "cool beam" i.e. most of the heat has been removed from the beam by allowing it to pass through the reflector while the light has been reflected.
Industry:Lights & lighting
Whether or not the lamp lumens can be varied while maintaining reliability.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A device used to lower the light output of a source, usually by reducing the wattage it is being operated at. Dimming controls are increasing in popularity as energy conserving devices.
Industry:Lights & lighting
For U-shaped Fluorescent lamps, this measurement is the average distance between the centres of each leg.
Industry:Lights & lighting
For U-shaped Fluorescent lamps, this measurement is the average distance between the inner walls of the legs.
Industry:Lights & lighting
For U-shaped Fluorescent lamps, this measurement is the average distance to the outside of each leg.
Industry:Lights & lighting
In High Intensity Discharge lamps the Bulb to Arc Angle is the angle off of centre between electrodes and bulb. The Bulb to Base Angle is the angle off of centre that the bulb is from the base.
Industry:Lights & lighting
A measurement of how effective the light source is in converting electrical energy to lumens of visible light. Expressed in lumens-per-watt (LPW) this measure gives more weight to the yellow region of the spectrum and less weight to the blue and red region where the eye is not as sensitive.
Industry:Lights & lighting