Fluorescent High Bay Lighting

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Fluorescent light is light that is created by a gas that when charged with electricity, produces a mercury vapor. The mercury atoms when electrically charged, interact together to produce short-wave ultraviolet light that causes a phosphor to glow, or fluoresce, this produces the light.

Through the use of a ballast to regulate power flow in fluorescent lamps, energy is regulated, controlled, and conserved in an efficient manner.

Certain types of rocks and minerals were first observed as emitting a certain glow, for hundreds of years before the reasoning behind why those rocks were glowing was ever understood.

 

 

In the 1800’s it was explained by a British/Irish scientist who then coined the phenomena fluorescence, after the mineral fluorite, which is a stone that has high fluorescence.

The next step involved a way to capture and use the fluorescence to create usable light fixtures. This involved the creation of economically manufactured glass tubes that could house inert gas, and electrical ballasts, and fluorescent coatings that could be used to energize the ultraviolet light produced. By the end of the 1920’s all of the key components needed for fluorescent lighting fixtures were in place.

High bay is a lighting term used to describe light that is used primarily in larger industrial buildings and complexes.