Improved start-up scenario for single-stage electronic ballast

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 471-478

  Wu, Tsai Fu ^a,b   Wu, Yong Jing ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODE SPUTTERING; ELECTRONIC BALLAST; POWER IMBALANCE; SINGLE STAGE INVERTER; SYNCHRONOUS SWITCH TECHNIQUE;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; POWER ELECTRONICS; SPUTTERING;

BALLASTS (LAMP);

EID: 0033718651     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/63.844507     Document Type: Article

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