An improved "charge pump" electronic ballast with low THD and low crest factor

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 867-875

  Chen, Wei ^b   Lee, Fred C ^a,b   Yamauchi, Tokushi ^c  

^a IEEE

^b State University   (United States)

^c PANASONIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ballast; Lamp; Power factor correction (PFC)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; DIODES; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; FLUORESCENT LAMPS;

CHARGE PUMP ELECTRONIC BALLAST CIRCUITS; CLAMPING DIODES; CREST FACTOR (CF); TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD);

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 0031235003     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.623005     Document Type: Article

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