The protection of the electronic ballasts for HID lamps

Author

Wei, Wang ; Shiyan, Yang ; Gang, Liu ; Dianguo, Xu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Harbin Inst. of Technol., China

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

17-20 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

1164

Abstract

The electronic ballasts for HID lamps need a protection circuit to prevent from high voltage and/or current stresses on circuit components in case that the HID lamps or the electronic ballasts are in faults. In this paper, a universal protection circuit is proposed for the electronic ballast for HID lamps. The simple protection circuit offers: short circuit, open circuit, startup failure, hot- and old-lamps are protected in abnormal operation, high efficiency and nearly no loss in normal operation. The protection circuit is adapted to various types of electronic ballasts for different kinds of HID lamps. A prototype with the novel circuit for 250 W HPS lamp is successfully developed and experimental result verified the design properly.

Keywords

discharge lamps; lamp accessories; overcurrent protection; overvoltage protection; 250 W; HID lamp; current stress; electronic ballast; high voltage prevention; open circuit protection; protection circuit; short circuit protection; startup failure; universal protection circuit; Circuit testing; Consumer electronics; Control engineering; Electronic ballasts; High intensity discharge lamps; Protection; Resonant inverters; Resumes; Stress; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Drive Systems, 2003. PEDS 2003. The Fifth International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7885-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEDS.2003.1283140

Filename

1283140