A backlighting arrangement constituted of a driving transformer arrangement; a plurality of lamp pairs, each of the constituent lamps of the plurality of lamp pairs exhibiting a first electrical connection and a second electrical connection; and a plurality of balancing transformers, each comprising a primary winding and a secondary winding magnetically coupled to the primary winding, and each associated with a particular one of the plurality of lamp pairs, the primary winding of each of the plurality of balancing transformers serially connected between the second electrical connections of the constituent lamps of the associated lamp pair, the secondary windings of the plurality of balancing transformers serially connected in phase, with a first end of the serially connected secondary windings of the balancing transformers connected to one phase output of the driving transformer arrangement.