Class E amplifiers used as a high power factor electronic ballasts for fluorescent lamps in a single stage

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 2009-2015

  Ponce, Mario ^a   Vazquez, Ruben ^a   Arau, Jaime ^a   Abud, David ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO TECNOLÓGICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VALLEY FILL TECHNIQUE;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; FLUORESCENT LAMPS;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 0031624338     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.1998.703456     Document Type: Conference Paper

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