{"id":12878,"date":"2026-07-13T09:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/?p=12878"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:19:52","slug":"low-cost-radionic-industries-ballast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/radionics\/low-cost-radionic-industries-ballast\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Cost Radionic Industries Ballast"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ballast Efficiency<\/h2>\n<p>There are some branded HID ballasts that run at high frequencies (can&#8217;t go beyond 50\/60Hz and probably no higher), so I would like to build my own LPS ballast using some low cost IC with voltage regulation and supervisor features (e.g. ATTinyX5 family) with the goal of reaching an efficiency above 85% ideally 90%.<\/p>\n<p>Magnetic ballasts will have difficulty meeting the new requirements if they utilize high arc voltage, but what about electronic ones?<\/p>\n<p> <iframe width=548 src=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dzCAepk4R0I frameBorder=0 height=306 allowfullscreen=true style='margin:0px auto; display: block;'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballast Efficiency There are some branded HID ballasts that run at high frequencies (can&#8217;t go beyond 50\/60Hz and probably no higher), so I would like to build my own LPS ballast using some low cost IC with voltage regulation and supervisor features (e.g. ATTinyX5 family) with the goal of reaching an efficiency above 85% ideally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radionics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12879,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/revisions\/12879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alsuprun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}