Characteristics of a novel ballast circuit for HID lamps

Author

Ohsato, Masato H. ; Kudo, Yosbiyuki ; Tai, Hisashi ; Kimura, Gunji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

22-25 Oct. 2001

Firstpage

227

Abstract

Developments in HID (high intensity discharge) lamps have increasingly been attracting interest due to their highly efficient operation and excellent color characteristics. This paper presents a novel type of solid-state ballast circuit for the HID lamps. The key feature of the circuit topology is the application of a boost-type converter. The proposed circuit is very simple, being composed of a reactor, a capacitor, an output transformer, and a switching device IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor). A 70 W metal-halide lamp (an HID lamp) is used in this circuit The performance characteristics of this proposed ballast circuit are described in this paper. Based on the theoretical and experimental results the proposed ballast circuit is suitable for the HID lamps.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; capacitors; lamp accessories; metal vapour lamps; reactors (electric); 70 W; HID lamps; ballast circuit; boost-type converter; capacitor; high intensity discharge lamps; ignitor; insulated gate bipolar transistor; metal-halide lamp; output transformer; performance characteristics; reactor; solid-state ballast circuit; switching device IGBT; Circuit topology; Electronic ballasts; Fluorescent lamps; High intensity discharge lamps; Inductors; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Power transformer insulation; Resonance; Switched capacitor circuits; Switching circuits;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 2001. Proceedings., 2001 4th IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7233-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDS.2001.975316

Filename

975316