Magnetek is an American company which focuses on the manufacturing and marketing of digital power and motion control systems. Magnetek ballasts are available worldwide from most lighting shops and electrical outlets. Ballasts also called control gear, and are designed to limit the current in an electrical circuit.

Ballasts vary from being a resistor, to capacitors to remote controlled electronic ballasts as used in fluorescent lamps. A ballast with a starter creates a voltage spark which turns the lamp on.

Magnetek ballasts types readily available are:

• Rapid Start Ballasts
• T12/T10 and T8 Applications
• Rapid Start Dimming Ballasts
• Slimline Ballasts
• Circline Ballasts
• Trigger-Start
• Preheat and Weatherproof
• Export Ballasts

Ballasts allow you to install fluorescent lights and attach a dimmer to control lighting and control energy costs. In America Universal Lighting Technologies are the direct contact for ballasts for information, purchase, retailers, uses and sustainable implementation.

However, these are not only for use with fluorescent lights; Ballast dimmers can also be attached to halogen and incandescent lamps leading to more flexibility than the usual brightness of (particularly) halogen lamps.

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