Advance Adds New Course To Popular Advance University Interactive Ballast Training Site
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(October 24th, 2006 - Rosemont, Illinois) Building on the information offered in previous courses "Ballast Basics 101," "Ballast Basics 201," and "Intro to New Lighting Technology - DALI," Advance announces the addition of a new course entitled "The ABC's of High Intensity Discharge (HID) Ballasts" to its enthusiastically-received Advance University interactive ballast training website.
"The ABC's of High Intensity Discharge (HID) Ballasts" is designed to help students understand, evaluate, and specify HID ballasts, both magnetic and electronic. Consisting of five tutorials, the course covers HID lamp and ballast basics and concludes with an explanation of the operating details and benefits of increasingly popular electronic HID technology.
The fourth course to be included within Advance University, "The ABC's of High Intensity Discharge (HID) Ballasts" joins the previous three: "Ballast Basics 101," which covers ballast basics, "Ballast Basics 201," which covers more basics and also features ballast troubleshooting techniques as well as an introduction to many newer lighting technologies, and "Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI)," which discusses this revolutionary lighting standard and its use in creating new and powerful lighting designs. Each of the four levels consists of numerous lessons and is followed by a short quiz. Students who successfully complete each level can print out a personalized Certificate of Completion.
Providing premium ballast-related training in a convenient, on-line format, Advance University provides essential training for individuals new to the lighting industry as well as those who seek a comprehensive review of their ballast knowledge. Advance University is accessible at www.advanceuniversity.com and is open for enrollment to anyone at no charge. Currently, over 10,000 students of all types have registered for Advance University and benefited from their access to this invaluable industry site.
Advance, a leading ballast manufacturer based in Rosemont, Illinois, offers a full line of electronic and magnetic fluorescent and magnetic and electronic HID ballasts as well as a broad family of drivers for LED light sources. For more information on Advance's complete product line, visit Advance's website at www.advancetransformer.com or call Advance at (800) 322-2086. Advance is a division of Philips Electronics North America.
