Physical Sciences and Mathematics Commons^™

The Electrical Performance Of Modern Compact Fluorescent Lamps, Sean T. Elphick, Philip Ciufo, Sarath Perera

Faculty of Informatics - Papers (Archive)

Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) are highly non-linear devices which are likely to experience very high growth in penetration levels, especially in domestic environments, in Australia over the next 2 – 3 years. This will occur due to the decision taken by the Australian Federal Government to ban the sale of incandescent light globes after 2009 as measures towards meeting the needs for demand side management and climate change abatement. While CFL technology has been in existence since the late 1980s penetration levels are now increasing to a point where the total CFL load cannot be considered negligible compared to other …