Re: New control chip for compact fluorescent lamps

MooseFET wrote:

IRF has unloaded their MOSFET line. This chip sure isn't going to be
the new direction of the company. There is no good reason the chip
needs so many added parts to do its job. A couple of logic lines
could tell it what tube is connected.

I'm guessing that I.R. have an inside line on a future government regulation that all CFLs will have to have a power factor higher than 0.9 that will make all the simple designs obsolete.

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