The German-made Omega Xenon HID Ballasts are designed to provide optimal lighting performance for your lighting kit. The ballasts also help to reduce energy costs in a huge way. Essentially their function is to regulate the flow of current to the lamp, to produce a continuous and uninterrupted high intensity beam. HID light kits are much more long lasting than regular halogen lamps. This is because of the presence of the ballasts, which greatly add to the efficiency of the light kit and add to its durability.

HID Ballast - an indispensable component of HID light kits

High Intensity Discharge (HID) lighting technology replaces the filament of the light bulb with a capsule of gas. The light is emitted from an arc discharge between two closely spaced electrodes hermetically sealed inside a small quartz capsule. To operate correctly, they need ballast, which supply the required voltage and control current. A higher amount of streaming light is produced as compared to a regular halogen bulb. The amount of light produced is greater than a standard halogen bulb, it consumes less power, and more closely reaches the color temperature of natural daylight.

Ballasts cannot be interchanged among different types of HID lamps. A ballast design involves a lot of electronic circuitry to provide specific lamp or ballast operating characteristics. For example, the effects of line voltage variations on resultant changes of lamp wattage are a function of the ballast circuit design. Requirements for a circuit which provides a finer degree of lamp regulation generally result in a higher ballast cost. The cost of ballasts is generally based on the degree or fineness of lamp regulation that the circuit provides. So get performance-efficient HID ballast from Omega Xenon to aid your Xenon lamps deliver better.