It’s a well-known fact that fluorescent lighting is cost effective and cheaper to operate than incandescent bulbs. People being aware of the harmful effects of incandescent lamps are now switching over to florescent lamps. Since these are capable of illuminating a large amount of bright light and consumes less energy.

Apart from above listed advantages, fluorescent light have certain disadvantages that cannot be overlooked. You must have heard humming noise from the tube light that is generally due to some defect in the ballast.

The basic reason for the fluorescent light to hum is the presence of the ballast in the light fixture. All fluorescent lights require a ballast to function. Loose magnetic ballast can be the cause of ballast hum. Well, you can save yourself from such annoyance and get some extra time from your fluorescent light bulbs.

Here, we’ll tell how to fix a hum in a fluorescent light fixture. Fixing the annoying noise in the lamp means, you will have to work with electricity. So, before making any installations and replacements, go to the electrical panel and trip the circuit breaker. Make sure, the power is completely turned off.

E-Lamp stands for electrode- less lamps. People are phasing out the use of incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent lights in favor of energy efficient lighting. Moreover a large percentage is now using E- lamps so as to minimize their utility charges. Unlike the old incandescent lights, this distinct technology emits a large amount of visible light than heat.

In other conventional gas discharge lamps, the electrodes are the part with the shortest life, limiting the lamp lifespan severely. Since an induction lamp has no electrodes, it can have a very long service life. For induction lamp systems with separate ballast, the service life can be as long as 30,000 hours, which is 11.4 years continuous operation, or 22.8 years used at night or day only. These are both user as well as environmental friendly.

Readers might be thinking, what does this E- lamp signifies. Well, let me tell you. These lamps eliminate the need for electrodes and are totally based on magnetic induction. For this reason they are also named as induction lamps. With such lights, no electrical connections through the lamp are needed. Rather, in induction lamps, light is transferred from outside the lamp through magnetic field.