Title :
A versatile power source for HID lamps
Author :
Dupuis, Pascal ; Bolsens, Bruno ; Van den Keybus, Jeroen ; Driesen, Johan ; Belmans, Ronnie
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Katholieke Univ., Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
Abstract :
One of the results of the EU COST action n°529, "Efficient Lighting for the 21st century", is a standard HID lamp with prototypes available since January 2005. As one of the purposes of this lamp is its use as a research tool, various solutions to supply the lamp with electrical power can be used. A versatile power source will be presented, permitting to operate and study HID lamps under a variety of driving conditions, including current control. The most important properties of this device are discussed in this paper.
Keywords :
discharge lamps; electric current control; HID lamps; current control; versatile power source; Circuit testing; Context modeling; Costs; High intensity discharge lamps; Laboratories; Plasma properties; Plasma temperature; Power supplies; Predictive models; Temperature distribution;
Conference_Titel :
Industry Applications Conference, 2005. Fourtieth IAS Annual Meeting. Conference Record of the 2005
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9208-6
DOI :
10.1109/IAS.2005.1518508