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fficient Fluorescent Magnetic Ballasts
First put on market in 1976,
- Efficient devices are exceedingly cost effective, and deliver exactly equivalent service (and longer lifetimes).
- Adopted through the 1980s at exactly the rate implied by existence of state efficiency standards
- Manufacturer, in 1988 Congressional testimony, stated
"It continues to surprise us that it has been so difficult to sell such a bargain ... we have observed that the momentum of acceptance of energy-saving ballasts is tapering off. We now believe that it may be difficult to even reach 50 percent market penetration" (Freegard 1988).