Design of law frequency square wave electronic ballast for the ceramic MH lamp

Author

Choe, Hyeon-Hui ; Lim, Ki-Seung ; Sin, Dong-Seok ; Park, Chong-Yun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Kang Won Nat. Univ., Chuncheon, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Electronic ballast for the ceramic MH lamps is proposed. The ballast consists of active PFC, inverter, power control circuit and igniter. The lamp driving stage is a dual buck inverter which is used to drive lamps with a low-frequency square-wave voltage and current. The dual buck inverter switches are controlled by power control circuit to maintain the rated lamp power. It can not only dim the lamp but eliminate the acoustic resonance. The prototype of electronic ballast driving 250 W ceramic MH lamps was verified by experimental results.

Keywords

ceramics; lamp accessories; metal vapour lamps; power control; power convertors; power factor correction; PFC; ceramic metal halide lamps; dual buck inverter; electronic ballast design; igniter; lamp driving stage; power 250 W; power control circuit; power factor correction; Ceramics; Electronic ballasts; Frequency; Inverters; Lamps; Power control; Resonance; Switches; Switching circuits; Voltage; Acoustic resonance; Dual buck inverter(DBI); Electronic ballast; Zero voltage switching(ZVS);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Machines and Systems, 2009. ICEMS 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5177-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-4-88686-067-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEMS.2009.5382694

Filename

5382694