Combined Electronic Ballast and Emergency Lighting Unit for TC-L compact fluorescent lamps and manual testing of the emergency lighting function. It features lightweight one-part emergency lighting unit, simple wiring, no compatibility problems, lamp warm start in normal operation, automatic restart after re-lamping in normal operation, green charge status display LED Intelligent and voltage guard. It offers checking the emergency lighting function by interrupting the unswitched phase IDC terminals for automatic and manual wiring, optional test switch, electronically controlled battery charging, deep discharge protection, short-circuit-proof battery connection and polarity reversal protection for battery.