Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of a lighting system and to a corresponding lighting system, in which, before installation in the lighting system, the ballasts are provided with codes which are individual for each of the ballasts and can be addressed externally by signaling, these codes are read during the installation of the lighting system and are entered in a controller so that they can be associated by the controller with the installation positions of the respective ballast, the controller in each case assigns drive addresses for drive purposes to each of the ballasts, and the controller uses the drive addresses to control the ballasts.