Research & Technology
In an ever-changing lighting market,it's good to know that your power supplies are up to any challenge your project presents.
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Innovative Solutions: One Customer at a Time
Come to us with your needs and will create an innovative solution tailored to your needs. At Hatch, innovation always comes standard with every product we make. With an extensive patent portfolio covering everything from electronic transformers and HID ballasts to advanced LED drivers, Hatch continues to create new products that are at the cutting edge of power supply technology.
Hatch HID Technology Innovations
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Ultra Low Spectral Power Ratio
This is a measure of the ballasts fundamental frequency (desired frequency) power in proportion to the unwanted frequency (high frequency) power. For operation with most lamps, ANSI requires that the Spectral Power Ratio in any 1kHz band between 10kHz and 400kHz be less than 1.8% of the total lamp power. All Hatch ballasts meet and exceed this requirement.
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Patented Half Bridge Technology
HATCH Half Bridge ballast models use a patented design of half bridge topology which allows Hatch to produce one of the most high performance low wattage ballast systems available. This patented technology improves many aspects of product reliability over other ballast designs.
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Patented Lamp Current Crest Factor Control
Hatch Ballasts have a patented system for actively compensating for lamp conditions and adjusting the lamp current drive waveform to control the lamp current crest factor under all lamp operating conditions over lamp warm up and lamp life. This results in reduced electrode erosion and increased lamp life.
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Resonant Start Technology & Hybrid Pulsed Resonant Ignition System (HPRIS)
Hatch Transformers was amongst the very early adopters of resonant start technology for HID lamps. Historically HID lamps were started using a pulse ignitor which used a 3-4kV pulse to start the lamp. Hatch adopted resonant start technology so as to reduce inconsistencies in starting performance, especially where the lamp is mounted some distance from the ballast. With the patented Hatch Resonant Start Technology, it is possible to start and run a lamp some distance from the ballast where pulse ignition systems would fail due to lamp wiring capacitance. Hatch's patented Resonant Start Technology has been developed over the years to further refine lamps starting characteristics and our most up to date Hybrid Pulsed Resonant Ignition System (HPRIS) is the safest and best performing HID ignition system to be found in the industry.
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Soft Start Circuitry
First implemented in 1992, all Hatch Transformers use soft-start circuitry to maximize lamp life. The soft-start circuit ramps up the lamp filament voltage slowly when the lamp is cold.
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Electronic Short-Circuit Protection
First implemented in 1991, all Hatch low voltage transformers utilize ESP, electronic short circuit and over load protection. The ESP sensing circuit will instantly shut down the output before any of the components are stressed if a short circuit or overload is detected. The transformer will automatically rest as soon as the fault is corrected.
