BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 19, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Energy Conservation Technologies, Inc. (Pink Sheets:ENYC), a landmark technology company ("Econ"), announces that its HID electronic ballast works with the new energy efficient Pulse Start Metal Halide lamps now in the marketplace and will allow dimming down to 60 percent.
Metal Halide lamps have been around since 1964 and are a significant addition to the lighting world. They are used in high ceiling applications and outdoor applications where bright light is required (airports, warehouses, security lighting, stadiums, etc.). Recent developments in higher wattages lamps, above 175 watt, have created a new family of metal halide pulse start lamps that have greater light output, longer life (20,000 hours), improved light emitted over the life of the lamp with greater color consistency maintained over time, (40% more) than today's standard metal halide lamps, and a faster start up and restart time. Each one of these is a major improvement and reduces the pay back period of conversion. Since pulse start metal halide HID lamps require 3,000-volt periodic starting pulses, standard probe start metal halide ballasts will not work with pulse start HID Metal Halide lamps.
Econ's HID electronic ballasts for high-pressure sodium lamps are designed to start lamps using high voltages pulses. Pulse start metal halide lamps can also be operated using these ballasts with minor modifications and thus Econ's technology will operate this new generation of pulse start metal halide lamps.
Fazle Quazi, Econ's Chairman and Director of Engineering commented, "Around the world, metal halide lamps are the primary choice for high ceiling and large indoor area illuminations. Because of their longer life and lumens maintenance combined with additional energy savings, pulse start metal halide lamps are the wave of the future and we have the technology to lead the way."
About Energy Conservation Technologies, Inc.
Energy Conservation Technologies, Inc. holds a patent for "Control Circuit for power factor corrected electronic ballasts and power supplies," patent No: 6,359,395, granted on March 19, 2002, developed by its founder, Fazle Quazi. The current patent covers power factor corrections and controlling energy into bulbs and power supplies such as: computer servers, copy machines, compact fluorescent lamps, power supplies to the telecom industry, inverters used to convert DC power to AC power (120 Volts), automobiles specialty lighting, solar and wind power generators, and fuel cells.
New patent applications involving the lighting industry are now being drafted after extensive testing. These new designs will revolutionize the HID lighting industry, annually a $2 billion dollar market in the United States and over $10 billion on an international basis. Econ's HID electronic ballasts will be available at costs comparable to magnetic ballasts, reducing ballast weight by a factor of 10 and saving an estimated 35 percent of electrical energy over magnetic ballast usage.
Econ is committed to keep its technology on the cutting edge of both the HID electronic ballast world and emerging developments for high power compact electronic fluorescent bulbs that will replace incandescent bulbs and in some cases HID bulbs used for flood lighting, gymnasiums, high ceiling applications and specialty and architectural lighting.
Discussions are now in progress with a major lighting manufacturer in Mexico and with a Fortune 500 company regarding licensing our patents and future patent filings.
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Statements describing objectives or goals or our future plans are forward-looking statements and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including among other factors our financial performance, our ability to license or market our new designs and the performance of those designs, the market for ballasts, and other technological developments in ballasts and lighting in general, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in this release.
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